Technology for Social Change

This blogg post is in honour of Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. This initiative was started by Suw Charman-Anderson as a way to recognized woman's contributions to technological innovations - to read more about this initiative visit [http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay]
The two women I'd like to recognize today are Lorna Boschman and Cease Wyss. They are my partners in The Talking Poles Project. They are also women who have taken there technical expertise and have applied this knowledge to develop a pedagogy - that empowers people to create stories about the own lives with the greater goal to initiate social change.

Lorna Boschman, is a PhD Candidate, Video Producer and Researcher at the School for Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU [http://www.siat.sfu.ca]. She recently directed this ability, a National Film Board (NFB) documentary that grew out of a two year long community-based media program for adults with cognitive disabilities. In addition to being available online through the NFB’s CitizenShift site and Canadian public libraries, this ability will appear as part of the program at the 2008 American Psychological Association annual conference. Boschman’s videos form part of the collection at the National Gallery of Canada, and at several universities and colleges, have been screened at MOMA in New York and at festivals internationally.
Learn more visit www.sfu.ca/~lornab

Cease Wyss, is a Skwxumesh woman from the village of Sla7an in North Vancouver. Cease has been working as a media artist for close to 15 years, and recently she began illustrating children's books. Cease has been in dialogue with the landscape in Vancouver for over 20 years through community gardening and public art involving plants and other natural elements. She co-produces a blogg called >techno medicine wheel< and used technology as a means to track, trace and archive Indigenous culture.
Visit http://technomedicinewheel.org