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

DePauw大学与Anita博格研究所（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，提出创建自我维持的区域妇女计算社区。国家一级的活动，如Grace Hopper计算机界妇女庆祝活动，对数千名妇女产生了积极影响。然而，这些方案并不能惠及所有妇女。特别是，国家会议的能力有限，无法从该国偏远地区征聘妇女，无法让妇女参加无法负担昂贵和耗时的国家会议差旅费的机构，无法发挥领导作用，无法鼓励高中生参与，也无法支持经常互动，以激发和维持初出茅庐的学生和专业人员之间的合作。这个项目-称为妇女万维网WWW.2-旨在克服这些障碍。该项目将创建12个新的和升级的计算机领域妇女区域庆祝活动，将学生、教师和土著代表聚集在一起参加两年一次的会议。会议将增加妇女？通过有意的角色建模，网络，团体和个人职业指导，提供职业信息，以及展示工作经验的机会，参与计算。与会者将被鼓励继续庆祝活动之间的互动，例如，通过形成ACM-W学生分会，举办多机构聚会，并通过维基保持联系。关注女性（以及地区）服务于一个由性别强大团结的人口，但在经验上不同，个人故事因种族，民族，残疾和性取向而异。这个“女性网络”将为性别和计算的刻板印象的文化变革的转折点建立动力。

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.