Independent Researcher

GRESOC - University Toulouse-le-Mirail

Thesis Title: The Counter-Globalisation move- ment Versus Information and communication technologies: Uses, practices and values of contemporaneous activism

About

Alexandra Haché is a sociologist, PhD in social economy and a researcher on ICT for the public good. She has recently ended a post-doctoral position for the JRC-IPTS where she has been developing research in support of policy making in the field of eInclusion (both digital inclusion and social inclusion supported by ICT), with a special focus on Migrants, Ethnic Minorities, Youth at risk and intermediaries working with them. She has also worked on the impact of social computing and Web 2.0 on civil society potential for self-organisation and social innovation. She is also researching how social movements use and develop ICT, and in turn how they communicate about them. This orientation has been often marked by her exploration of free software, free culture and gender relations to ICT.Finally, she has been involved since 2004 in the use and development of free software tools for social and political transformation for neighbourhood communities, engaged research networks, immigrant teenagers and women groups. She has been contributing to the design of those tools by producing researching, improving the software and usability and providing training