Vilnius, ICT2013 Conference, 6°November 2013

Maria Sangiuliano

ECWT Italy/Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

� From e-Skills Italy 2012 and 2 events in the national

Smart City Exhibition in Bologna 2012-2013 with italian

members and partnersmembers and partners

� Networking with major EU Stakeholders and submitted

projects within FP7th

� Pilot case studies in 2 Italian middle sized cities

� Collaboration with WIRES Summit + COST Gender STE

� SEiSMiC Project, Societal Engagement in

Science, Mutual learning in Cities, FP7th

2013-2016: ECWT as a partner in charge of

gender mainstreaming actions.gender mainstreaming actions.

� Towards new project applications in the

framework of Horizon 2020 (Societal

Challenges, ICT, Transport, Energy)

� Wired and high tech cities & citizens using ICT for

environmental and social sustainability .

� Inclusive Smart Cities and the enabling –empowering� Inclusive Smart Cities and the enabling –empowering

potentials of ICT (Paskaleva, 2010; Antiroikko, 2012; JPI

Urban Europe; RRI from FP7th to Horizon 2020)

� 50% +population (women) underrepresented both in

local governments , innovation networks and in ICT

R&D.

The neutral/gender

blind Smart City

Gender Sensitive

Inclusive Smart City

Research Contents •Disembodied citizens as

ICT users

•Gender as a variable in

ICT, sociological– urbanICT users ICT, sociological– urban

planning, behavioural

research.

•User centred design

and/or codesign

Implementation

Processes

•Top down governance

models (industry or

government led) and

PPP

•Participatory

Governance

•User centred design

Codesign & co-creation

Need for a gender

analysis of all 31

Source: www.smart-cities.eu

factors and 74

indicators of the EU

Smart Cities Ranking

Gender

Sustainableinnovation

Inclusion

Women’s shorter itineraries-or ‘the mobility of care’ (Sanchez de Madariaga, 2013)

Wider use of public transports and alternatives to cars

Accessibility and safety issues

THANK YOU!

www.womenandtechnology.euwww.womenandtechnology.eu

Contacts:

� Eva.fabry@womenandtechnology.eu

� Maria.sangiuliano@womenandtechnology.eu