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Women and digitalization: reducing the digital gender gap ArticlesGenderTechnology StudiesWomen

Women and digitalization: reducing the digital gender gap

Interview with Milagros Sainz, principal investigator of the IN3’s Gender and ICT group (GenTIC) and expert in social psychology of gender differences in STEM career pathways and digital competences   Technology is increasingly prevalent and[…]

11 February: International Day of Women and Girls in Science GenderTechnology StudiesWomen

11 February: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Women have had a remarkable impact on scientific progress, but many of them have been written out of history. The Matilda effect was coined as a way to denounce the bias against acknowledging the achievements[…]

Conversations on Open Source Sustainability Open dataSoftwareSustainabilityTechnology Studies

Conversations on Open Source Sustainability

By Javer Luis Cánovas Nowadays, Open Source Systems (OSS) has become a vital part of our society and its digital transformation. It lives in almost every device we use, ranging from mobile devices or personal[…]

MegaM@Rt2: An scalable model-based framework for continuous development and runtime validation of complex systems Technology Studies

MegaM@Rt2: An scalable model-based framework for continuous development and runtime validation of complex systems

By Abel Gómez, researcher of the Systems, Software and Models (SOM) Research Lab at the UOC’s Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)   In the global context, the European electronic industry faces stiff competition. Electronic systems are becoming[…]

7 Privacy related questions about contact tracing apps AppsCOVID19Social NetworksTechnology Studies

7 Privacy related questions about contact tracing apps

By Julián Salas & Cristina Pérez.  Now that in many countries the lockdown measures and restrictions on the mobility implemented to control the COVID-19 pandemic are being relaxed gradually, contact tracing is taking place as[…]