Christiane Floyd, Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Group at the Informatics Department, University of Hamburg;

Govind Kelkar, Ph.D. in Political Economy, Professor of History and Gender and Development Studies, Consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO);

Silvie Klein-Franke, Ph.D. Immunobiology/Biochemistry; further education in affirmative action;

Cheris Kramarae, Professor, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon;

Cirilia P. Limpangog, [...]. Mass Communication, Master in Public Administration, post graduate fellow in Germany on 'Gender and Corruption'.

Das englischsprachige Buch stellt Ergebnisse der Internationalen Frauenuniversität, Projektbereich Information vor. The book analyses the interdependence of knowledge, culture and information from a feminist perspective in a world of globalisation.

1: Building International Learning Communities.- The Challenges of Building ifu.- Students' Motivations for Joining ifu.- The Experience of Living ifu.- Revising Sisterhood: from Unity to Affinity. The Case of the International Women's University.- Linguistic Expressions Connecting Women Across Cultures.- 2: Gendering Information Technology.- Cross-Cultural Cooperation in Designing Information Resources.- Bringing Gender Issues to Technology Design.- Women in Computing.- Technological Change and Cultural Ceilings.- 3: Enhancing Communication.- Cyberfeminism Crossover: Talking about Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Experiences.- Spinning at Computers.- Imaginative Visualizations: Enriching Women's Workplace Skills.- Performing Borders: Gender and Technology in Diasporic Culture.- 4: Supporting Cooperative, Interactive Learning.- A Culture of Cooperation: Making the Journey the Destination.- Towards Knowledge Co-construction.- Teaching Computer Skills: A Gendered Approach.- At Home in Education: Making Online Education Work for Global Women.- 5: Networking for Community Development.- Building Virtual Communities: The Case of a Telehealth Project from the South Pacific.- Development from Within: Community Development, Gender and ICTs.- Rhetoric and Realities: Evaluation of IT Projects.- Times of the City: The Use of ICTs in Timesaving.- Strategies for Empowering Women on the Internet.- 6: Fostering Democracy.- Visions of Citizenship: Women, Democracy and Information.- Indigenous Women and Empowerment.- Information Rights and Media Democracy in Times of Globalization. A Women's and Civil Society's Perspective.- The Internet in the Service of Democracy.- Information Technology and Protection of Refugees.- Resolution.- Resolution (Poem).- List of Authors.