Female solidarity in order to prevent exclusion of old women from digital society |
Monday, 28 July 2014 00:00 |
The two years European Project 'How young technological women can do network with women 50+ (ΤΥΝΕΤ 50+)' was fulfilled with success. The difficulties of old people and especially of old women to get familiar with new communication technologies (e-mail, internet, skype, facebook, mobile phones etc) are studied through this project. These could be on one hand because they do not have the necessary technological background and on the other hand because they don’t feel easy with technology or they don’t have easy access due to prejudices and stereotypes. Greek Women's Engineering Association (EDEM) was the project partner from Greece and organized all the activities took place in Greece with coordinator the General Secretary of EDEM, Nadia Chrisicopoulou. Aim of the project, which took place in 7 European countries, by the European network WiTEC (www.witec-eu.net), is to build in each country a group of young women, with the technological knowhow, who, during the project, will be skilled with additional abilities a) to teach women 50+ who belong to special groups: they do not have access to new technologies, they are poor, they are not educated, they are ‘social excluded’ (minorities, emigrants etc.) b) to transfer they necessary knowledge in a simple way in order that women 50+ can develop the basic skills to use new technologies. The project was structured according four thematic Workshops, with the participation of partners’ representatives and of women –young ones with technological specialization and older ones without any technological skills.
EDEM also organized a pilot two weeks’ seminar (June 2014) addressing to women 50+ who hadn’t any knowledge and skills to use new technologies. The young female engineers and students of Technical Universities who had attended one or more workshops were the trainers-mentors of the women 50+. This seminar showed that with special/personal interventions all -men and women- can benefit from new technologies and open up their horizons. |