BPC-A: Collaborative Research: WWW.2, a Wide Web of Women

DePauw大学与Anita Borg研究所(ABI)和弗吉尼亚大学合作，并与ACM妇女理事会(ACM-W)和国家妇女与信息技术中心(NCWIT)合作，提议在计算机领域建立自给自足的区域妇女社区。国家一级的活动，如计算机领域妇女格蕾丝·霍珀庆祝活动，对数千名妇女产生了积极影响。然而，她们不可能接触到所有女性。特别是，国家会议在以下方面的能力有限：从该国与世隔绝的地区招募妇女，将负担不起昂贵和耗时的全国会议旅费的机构的妇女包括在内，发挥领导作用，鼓励高中生参与，以及支持足够频繁的互动，以激发和维持初出茅庐的学生和专业人员之间的合作。这项名为WWW.2的项目旨在克服这些障碍。该项目将创建12个新的和升级的地区庆祝活动，将学生、教师和印第安学代表聚集在一起，参加两年一次的会议。这些会议将通过刻意的角色建模、网络、团队和个人职业指导，提供职业信息，以及展示她们工作经验的机会，增加女性S在计算机领域的参与。与会者将被鼓励在庆祝活动之间继续互动，例如，成立ACM-W学生分会，主办多机构聚会，并通过维基保持联系。关注妇女(以及地区)服务于通过性别强有力地团结在一起的人口，但经历也不同，个人故事因种族、民族、残疾和性取向而异。这一“女性网络”将为性别和计算机方面的刻板印象带来文化变革的转折点。

DePauw University with the collaboration of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) and the University of Virginia, and in partnership with the ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) and the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT), proposes to create self-sustaining, regional communities of women in computing. National-level activities, such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, have positively impacted thousands of women. They cannot, however, reach all women. In particular, national meetings have limited ability to recruit women from isolated areas of the country, to include women at institutions that cannot afford expensive and time-consuming travel to national meetings, to provide leadership roles, to encourage participation by high school students, and to support interactions that are frequent enough to spark and sustain collaborations among budding students and professionals. This project -- called WWW.2 for Wide Web of Women -- aims to overcome these impediments. The project will create twelve new and upgraded Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing that will bring students, faculty and indistry representatives together for biennial conferences. The conferences will increase women?s participation in computing through intentional role modeling, networking, group and indivudal career mentoring, providing career information, and oportunities for experiences in presenting their work. The attendees will be encouraged to continue their interactions between Celebrations, for example, by forming ACM-W student chapters, hosting multi-institutional get togethers, and maintaining connections through a wiki. Focusing on women (as well as regions) serves a population powerfully united by gender, yet diverse in experience, with personal stories varying by race, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. This "Web of Women" will build momentum toward a tipping point of cultural change in stereotypes about gender and computing.