Smart cities, genere e inclusione : processi di apprendimento in rete, competenze e trasformazione

Integrating a gender perspective in projects and public policies implies that the actors involved in policy design and implementation deal with complex processes of re-thinking and re-organizing their actions, in a network dimension and through re-negotiations and tensions among discursive frames, with gendered structures of inequalities as the focus of reflections and possible common actions, in their being intersected with other differences and discriminations. In Europe gender mainstreaming achieved only partial results so far and particularly with regard to innovation policies. The research aims at shaping possible different meanings for gendered approaches to technological and social innovation policies and practices in urban contexts, in relation to Smart Cities and Communities’ models. In order to read with a gender perspective transformative and expansive learning processes within multistakeholder networks, qualitative indicators are defined and proposed, with regard to contents, processes and the training/educational dimensions.