[Ict4women] Deadline extended to May 7th, 2010 - Call for Research Pre-Proposals: 'Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society'

[Sophia Huyer]

The deadline for the submission of Pre-Proposals to the 'Gender and  
Citizenship in the Information Society Research Program' has been  
extended from April 28th, 2010 to May 7th, 2010. Please access www.gender-IS-citizenship.net 
  for more information.

Thanks,

Anita Gurumurthy
Executive Director
IT for Change
www.ITforChange.net

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     Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society
     An Asia-Wide Research Program
Call for Pre-Proposals
Deadline Extended to May 7th, 2010





Table of contents
Background
Objectives
Eligibility
Selection
Research Questions
Deadlines
Contact us
        Background

IT for Change, with support from IDRC, is happy to announce an Asia- 
wide research initiative titled 'Gender and Citizenship in the  
Information Society'. This Research Program aims to explore how the  
concept of citizenship may be useful to study the gendered context of  
the emerging techno-social paradigm. The opportunities and challenges  
for women's equality and empowerment in the emerging context need to  
be framed in a nuanced way, juxtaposing the analysis of gender  
relations with the broader questions of development, participation and  
power. The Program is thus an attempt to build a theoretical framework  
and generate policy directions from the standpoint of marginalised  
women in the region. It will broaden the conceptual horizon about  
gender and ICTs, towards a politicisation and radicalisation of the  
'access-centred' discourse so that the core feminist question about  
power, justice and equity can be addressed in its full implications.   
The Program will award around 8 grants of up to 25,000 USD each, for  
one year of primary research.


Objectives        (back to top)

The Program's goal is to create a theoretical niche in information  
society studies that draws from and builds upon Southern feminist  
scholarship. The overall objectives of the Program are as follows:

To understand how emerging techno-social paradigms, shaped by new  
information and communication technologies (ICTs), recast the  
citizenship of marginalised women.
To examine the challenges to and opportunities for women's citizenship  
as they are shaped by new ICTs in relation to specific social and  
institutional ecologies.
To propose ways forward for practice and policy in relation to  
information and communication domains that place women's citizenship  
at the centre.
To build a network of researchers, scholars and policy makers on  
information society and gender issues in Asia.

Eligibility        (back to top)

The Program seeks to attract mid-career scholars who have made high  
quality contributions to feminist scholarship and policy debates in  
the Asian region with at least 15 years of research experience. Each  
research project is expected to be carried out by a team of at least 2  
researchers. The Principal Researcher will need to be affiliated with  
a well-reputed institution and will preferably have a doctoral degree.  
Exposure to information society and  new media  discourses will be  
desirable.

Selection         (back to top)

An independent Program Advisory Committee will short-list pre- 
proposals for the final round, based on the following criteria:

Congruence with the objectives and broad research framework of the  
Program

Clarity of the core idea sought to be investigated, and the  
specificity and uniqueness of epistemological gap that the proposed  
research seeks to address
Originality of the research proposal
Potential impact of research findings, mainly for public policy and  
development practice
Quality of research design and methodology
Scholarship record of Principal Researcher and the team
Appropriateness of Budget and Work Plan
Impact on developing research capacity in the relatively new areas of  
inquiry being addressed by the Program

Key Research Questions         (back to top)

This initiative seeks to address the following themes of inquiry.  
Proposals must cover one or more of these areas:

Citizenship practices leveraging new technologies and the  
renegotiation of women's formal citizenship in local contexts
New technologies, institutional transparency and women's participation  
in local governance
The trans-local nature of the public sphere and changing meanings of  
citizenship for marginalised women
Gender transformation through digital media and emerging 'local publics'
Women's citizenship, economic and cultural globalisation, social  
movements and new technologies
National policy frameworks and institutional mechanisms around ICTs,  
with respect to women's citizenship
Gender, hegemonic masculinities and 'openness'/'publicness' of online  
spaces
Interconnections between technology governance regimes (including  
Internet governance), 'open technology paradigms' and emancipatory  
feminist frameworks

Deadlines        (back to top)

Pre-proposal applications must be submitted by May 7th, 2010. Selected  
projects will be invited by mid-May to send in detailed proposals.

Contact us        (back to top)

For more details, visit www.gender-IS-citizenship.net

Questions? Please write to  gender-IS-citizenship at ITforChange.net




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