document: Virtual Development Center The Virtual Development Center of the Institute for Women and Technology seeks to significantly enhance the impact of women on technology . It addresses this goal by increasing the number of women who have input on created technology , enhancing the ways people teach and develop technology , and developing need-based technology that serves the community . Through activities of the Virtual Development Center , a pattern is emerging regarding how computing technologies do or do not satisfy the needs of community groups , particularly those communities serving women . This paper describes the Virtual Development Center program and offers observations on the impact of computing technology on non-technical communities
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extractive_keyphrases: virtual development center women community groups
abstractive_keyphrases: information technology teaching gender issues computer science education