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

由马里兰大学巴尔的摩县妇女和信息技术中心(CWIT)领导的组织网络，与进步计算妇女网络支持方案协会(WNSP)、全球科学和工程劳动力多样化联盟、国际妇女科学和技术网络(INWES)、国家妇女和信息技术中心(NCWIT)、全球妇女参与科学和技术中心(WIGSAT)、WINNETEU25(由欧洲联盟25个成员的妇女资源中心主办的门户网站)、妇女参与工程方案倡导网络(WEPAN)、教科文组织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，集中获取关于全球男女技术鸿沟和妇女在信息技术发展中未得到充分利用的问题和解决办法的数千种广泛分散的资源。该项目将在研究和实践之间架起一座全球桥梁，建立一个集中的门户网站，打通国际研究人员和方案执行人员之间的沟通渠道，以便在共享全球知识的基础上制定可能的最佳做法。这将使美国的项目能够开发和实施教育和劳动力所需的有效项目，以吸引包括女性在内的各种工人。智力优势-该项目将创新地使用以用户为中心的网站设计和开发方法，创建一个普遍使用的门户网站。门户内容将由一个代表研究和教育实践的内容团队仔细挑选和描述，以确保高质量的资源。所增加的价值是巩固和获得分散在多个研究学科以及从研究和评估结果到国际实践的现有资源。广泛影响-全球门户项目将增加对现有资源的获取，并将支持女孩和妇女在全球范围内获得、识字和参与IT，并将加强美国。努力解决妇女在信息技术方面持续参与不足的问题，方法是提供更充分的机会获得该领域的国际研究，并更好地将资源和有关最佳做法的知识联系起来，使妇女参与进来。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。更好的机会将促进研究人员之间以及教育和发展领域的研究人员之间的国际合作，特别是在一系列新近成立的组织之间。增加妇女的参与和促进学位的完成满足了确定的国家需要，即在这些领域增加熟练和受过高等教育的雇员。CWIT将致力于通过传统的教师网络和CWIT通过会议、论文、会议和网站发展起来的广泛的合作伙伴网络来传播信息，该网站每月有超过15万名访问者。

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.