<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Irene Kamberidou</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Inspiring Women into Technology: the EUD Megacommunity</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education ICIE’10: New Higher Education Programs &amp; Jointly 4th International Steering Committee Meeting, June 17\_19, 2010, Tallinn, Estonia</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18 June</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG EDUCATION AND CULTURE, EDUCATION, AUDIOVISUAL AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY, LIFELONG LEARNING ERASMUS NETWORKS</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–11</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kamberidou&lt;/strong&gt;, I. (2010). “Inspiring Women into Technology: the EUD Megacommunity”. Poster presentation in &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;proceedings &lt;/span&gt;of the 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education ICIE’10: New Higher Education Programs &amp;amp; Jointly 4&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;th &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;International Steering Committee Meeting, June 17_19, 2010, Tallinn, Estonia. [Also see article in: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/daa11/person.cfm?personid=21537&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/daa11/person.cfm?personid=21537&lt;br&gt;ABSTRACT:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times New Roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;In order to promote the targets of the European Center for Women and Technology (ECWT) and increase the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;number of girls and women in the knowledge based economy until the year 2020, the ECWT has developed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt; the European Directory (EUD) of Women and ICT (http:// &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;www.ictwomendirectory.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;), an online directory, an ecospace, a meeting point for ICT women in Europe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;The EUD, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;created with the support of the European Commission DG Information Society and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;Media, was launched in Brussels in October 2009 by Commissioner Viviane Reding.[1] (Kamberidou 2010) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;Specifically, on the 8th of October 2009, Commissioner Reding welcomed 32 new signatories of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;Code of Best Practices for Women and ICT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt; and introduced this new tool –the online Directory for Women in ICT: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;Specifically, this prentation showcases, or rather introduces &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a new &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ecospace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an online directory, a tool for &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;getting more girls and women into the technology sector. &lt;/strong&gt;It is the &lt;strong&gt;first regional&amp;nbsp;directory for Women and ICT issues, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;a meeting point for ICT women in Europe and a megacommunity for &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;innovative collaboration in the Women and ICT and related sectors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords: &lt;/strong&gt;new ecospace, megacommunity, collaboration platform, European level database, Web Community for Women in ICT.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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