Leila Hassanin has a Ph.D. in Public Administration and 20 years of experience in socio-economic development and institutional capacity building, ranging from local, national, regional, to international levels. Dr Hassanin served as Information Officer for UNDP's Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) in New York and has been a national officer for UNICEF and WHO in Egypt. She is a researcher and a consultant and has been working with various UN and bi-lateral development organisations. Leila Hassanin is founder and director of ArabDev, which since 1999, has focused on IT for development and has spearheaded grassroots IT initiatives in Egypt in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education, local and regional NGOs and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. |
The Egypt research aims at making policy makers, students and the general public aware of the needs of low income artisan women in Egypt to increase their earned income. The research looks at information technology as a potential tool for improving Egyptian artisan women's livelihoods. The outcome of the research was presented at three international conferences, in addition to two chapters in Buskens, I.
and Webb, A. eds., 2009 . African Women and ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment. London: Zed Books |
Leila Hassanin was a speaker at "Rooms of their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society", conference organized by the Royal Society of Canada and University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2007. The conference addressed local and international cultures that promote and hold back women's active, creative and significant involvement in the
knowledge economy. |
Hassanin further presented at ISTAS 08, June 26-28, 2008, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology; the 2008 theme revolved around Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies within an interdisciplinary context. |
At the 8th International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC9, held in Pretoria, South Africa on September 25-26, 2008, Anne Webb from GRACE presented the chapter Egyptian women artisans: ICTs are not the entry to modern markets
which was also published in the Avgerou, C, M. Smith, and P. Van Den Besselaar. Social Dimensions of Information and Communication Technology Policy: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), London: Springer, 2008. |
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