GSE/DIS: A Coherent Global Web Portal of Resources for Women and ICT

由马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校（UMBC）妇女与信息技术中心（CWIT）领导的组织网络，与进步计算妇女网络支持计划协会（WNSP）、全球科学与工程劳动力多样化联盟、国际科学技术妇女网络（INWES）、国家妇女与信息技术中心（NCWIT）、全球科学技术妇女（WIGSAT）、WINNETEU25（门户网站由欧盟的25个成员妇女资源中心主办）、工程项目妇女倡导网络（WEPAN）和世界工程组织联合会（WFEO）能力建设委员会将建立一个门户网站，集中访问数千个广泛分散的资源，讨论男女之间的全球技术鸿沟问题和解决方案，以及妇女在信息技术发展中的利用不足问题。该项目将通过创建一个集中的门户网站，在研究和实践之间建立一座全球桥梁，该门户网站将打开国际研究人员和项目实施人员之间的沟通渠道，以在共享全球知识的基础上开发最佳实践。这将使美国的项目能够制定和实施教育和劳动力方面所需的有效项目，以吸引包括妇女在内的各类工人。智力优势-该项目将创新地使用以用户为中心的网页设计和开发方法，创建一个普遍可用的门户网站。门户网站的内容将由一个代表研究和教育实践的内容团队仔细选择和描述，以确保高质量的资源。增加的价值是整合和获得已经存在的资源，这些资源分散在多个研究学科中，从研究和评估结果到国际实践。更广泛的影响-全球门户项目将增加对现有资源的访问，并将支持全球女孩和妇女获得、读写和参与信息技术，并将加强美国的信息技术通过提供更充分的机会参与该领域的国际研究，并通过更好地将有关最佳实践的资源和知识联系起来，让女性参与进来，努力解决女性在IT领域持续参与不足的问题。该门户网站将加强研究和教育的基础设施，重点是提供有关妇女和信息技术主题的优质全球资源。更好的获取途径将使研究人员之间以及教育和发展领域的研究人员之间，特别是在一系列相当新成立的组织之间，能够进行国际合作。增加妇女的参与和促进学位的完成，满足了在这些领域增加熟练和受过高等教育的雇员的确定的国家需要。CWIT将通过传统的教师网络和CWIT广泛的合作伙伴网络传播信息，这些合作伙伴网络通过会议、论文、论文集和每月访问量超过15万的网站发展起来。

A network of organizations headed by the Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), in partnership with the Association of Progressive Computing Women's Networking Support Program (WNSP), Global Alliance for Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce, International Network of Women in Science and Technology (INWES), National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT), WINNETEU25 (Web portal hosted by the 25 member Women's Resource Centers of the European Union), Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN), and World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Capacity Building Committee will build a web portal that centralizes access to thousands of widely scattered resources on the issue of and solutions to the global technology divide between men and women, and the under-utilization of women in the development of information technology. This project will build a global bridge between research and practice by creating a centralized web portal that will open up lines of communication between international researchers and program implementation personnel to develop the best possible practices based on sharing global knowledge. This will allow U.S.-based programs to develop and implement the effective programs needed in education and the workforce to attract a diversity of workers, including women.Intellectual merit - The project will innovatively use user-centered web design and development methods to create a universally useable web portal. The portal content will be carefully selected and described by a content team representing both research and education practice to assure high quality resources. The value added is consolidation and access to already existing resources that are scattered across multiple research disciplines and across the spectrum from research and evaluation findings to international practice.Broader Impact -The Global Portal project will increase access to already existing resources and will support girls and women's access to, literacy in, and participation in IT around the globe and will enhance the U.S.' efforts to address women's continuing under-participation in IT by providing fuller access to international research in the area and by better connecting resources and knowledge about best practices to engage females. The web portal will enhance the infrastructure for research and education by focusing on providing access to quality global resources on subjects related to women and IT. Better access will enable international collaboration between researchers, and among those in the education and development fields, especially between a wide array of fairly recently created organizations. Increasing women's participation and facilitating degree completion fulfills the identified national need of increasing skilled and highly educated employees in these fields. CWIT will work to disseminate the information through traditional faculty networks and CWIT's expansive network of partners developed through conferences, papers, proceedings and its website, which receives over 150,000 visitors every month.