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Silvia listening to co-panelists during the first OpenGLAM conference in Mexico, photo by Omar Sansi, CC-BY-SA 4.0

News Created: 26 March 2019

Women in culture: Silvia Gutiérrez, digital humanities librarian

Collections Campaigns Women Technology

Today's woman in culture and tech is Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre - a digital humanities Librarian at El Colegio de México. Silvia discusses following your passions and finding like-minded people (online and off) and the challenges of the 'economics of care' and the 'motherhood penalty'.

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Initiation? ceremony, Magdalenian. Nine partially clothed women and one young man.

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News Created: 27 March 2019

A Season of Women in culture and tech: Scann, digital cultural heritage and copyright expert

Collections Campaigns Copyright Digital-cultural-heritage Women

Today we interview Evelin Heidel (aka Scann) - academic and digital cultural heritage and copyright expert. She has some extremely powerful words in her hard-hitting response that doesn't shy away from critical topics such as the intersection of feminism and decolonisation, racism and sexism in copyright law, equal pay for equal work including a very pointed message on male privilege.

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Sandra Fauconnier, photo by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 4.0

News Created: 25 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Sandra Fauconnier, art historian and GLAM project officer

Collections Campaigns Women Glam-wiki Network

We hear from Europeana Network Association (ENA) member Sandra Fauconnier. She discusses the importance of building sustainable digital resources and the need to rethink traditional notions of leadership.

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News Created: 22 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Petra Kammerevert, Member of European Parliament

Collections Campaigns Women Culture politics

Today we speak with Petra Kammerevert - Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT). In her rousing interview, she discusses the barriers entrepreneurial women face and just why they are 'key to accelerating economic growth and social innovation'.

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News Created: 20 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Medhavi Gandhi - leader in arts preservation and digital access

Collections Campaigns Women Wiki Technology

Today we speak with Medhavi Gandhi, director of Happy Hands, an organisation that works on reviving traditional arts through building artisanal capacity and increasing youth/public access to folk arts, and founder of The Heritage Lab, a digital media platform for cultural heritage enthusiasts. She discusses the importance of female role models and the inherent strength of culture as a means of soft power.

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News Created: 13 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Nora Al-Badri, media artist and activist

Collections Campaigns Women Media artist

Today we hear from renowned media artist Nora Al-Badri on the emancipatory powers of technology. Further, she discusses the importance of intersectional feminism and the challenges of producing art in a global society that values culture - but where this doesn't necessarily translate to financial freedom to the artists (especially women).

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Pressrelease Created: 8 March 2019

Europeana champions female innovators in digital and culture this International Women’s Day (March 8)

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Europeana calls on the cultural heritage and digital sectors to join the conversation in championing women in culture and tech.

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News Created: 29 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Campaigns Digital-transformation Women European-commission Technology

On 18 January, Europeana, in collaboration with Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, opened the digital exhibition Pioneers in order to highlight the lives and achievements of historical European. Now that Women’s History Month is coming to a close, we’re excited to hear from Commissioner Gabriel once more, as she shares her vision for women in today’s digital world.

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News Created: 12 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, academic, Wikipedian and champion of 'impractical' girls

Collections Campaigns Women Wikipedia

Last week we introduced you to the content gender gap - and today we introduce you to someone whose initiatives, work and inspirations have added hundreds of thousands of female stories to the Wikipedia platform. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is the Vice-president of the Wikimedia District of Columbia, a Visiting Scholar to Northeastern University and on the Board of Advisors for Women in Journalism. We talk about filling the gaps in female history and fighting for girls with impractical dreams.

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News Created: 6 March 2019

Women in culture and tech: Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard of Wiki Loves Women

Collections Campaigns Women Technology

Today we hear from esteemed wiki leaders and Wikipedians Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard as they tackle the gender (digital) content gap and advocate for and promote the contributions of women and girls to our digital archives and media spaces.

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