This document discusses the underrepresentation of women in computing fields and suggests reasons for the lack of gender diversity. It notes that while women were among the earliest computer programmers, they currently make up a small fraction of the industry. The document suggests that employers' biases hinder women from gaining higher-level computing positions. It proposes strategies to bring more women into computing, such as improving access to computing education, offering support groups and role models, and promoting gender equality and positive attitudes.
IA in the Age of AI: Embracing Abstraction and Change at IA Summit 2018Carol Smith
This session focuses on the questions we need to ask to create good, ethical experiences for our users.
Information Architects must push to…
- Keep people at the center of our work.
- Lead with our user’s goals.
- Ease of use, usability, findability, effectiveness, efficiency…
We must work to mature organizations approach
- Push back on “technology first” ideas.
- Lead on ethics - for our users, humanity.
This research report looks at the current state of women in technology occupations, describes the barriers to recruitment and retention, and provides strategies for improving your company culture and performance by increasing your numbers of technical women.
Navigating challenges in IA people management at IAC19Carol Smith
Whether you are building a team, managing experience practitioners or navigating career changers, managing a team of creative and analytical IA practitioners can be challenging. The welcome change towards diverse and inclusive hiring practices can add even more challenges.
Learn how an experienced manager navigated through painful challenges and wonderful successes while managing large and small design departments in organizations with employees around the world. Presented at IA Conference 2019 in Orlando Florida by Carol Smith.
How does technology empower women?
What are the latest trends in the sector?
Which initiatives exist to diversify that field?
What can you do to shift the balance?
Prototyping for Beginners - Pittsburgh Inclusive Innovation Summit 2019Carol Smith
To design for inclusion we often must try out different ideas. In this interactive session you'll learn about all types of prototyping and how to get feedback on your ideas from your users. This session will briefly introduce a variety of prototypes and materials and evaluation methods for early learning.
Participants will have time to build a quick prototype and practice getting feedback on it. We'll cover designing for accessibility and inclusion even at the prototype stage. You'll have the information you need to launch your ideas as early as possible to learn from the experience and improve more quickly.
Presented at the Pittsburgh Inclusive Innovation Summit March 30, 2019 held at Point Park University.
Making Great User Experiences at Cleveland C# .Net Meetup July 27 2017Carol Smith
Everything is designed, yet some interactions are much better than others. What does it take to make a great experience? Carol introduces basic concepts in user experience design that you can use to improve your work. You'll learn the basics of: cognitive psychology; accessibility; design thinking; interaction design; and visual design. These concepts work together to make great user experiences and Carol will help you to understand how this work can be integrated into your existing software development process.
IA in the Age of AI: Embracing Abstraction and Change at IA Summit 2018Carol Smith
This session focuses on the questions we need to ask to create good, ethical experiences for our users.
Information Architects must push to…
- Keep people at the center of our work.
- Lead with our user’s goals.
- Ease of use, usability, findability, effectiveness, efficiency…
We must work to mature organizations approach
- Push back on “technology first” ideas.
- Lead on ethics - for our users, humanity.
This research report looks at the current state of women in technology occupations, describes the barriers to recruitment and retention, and provides strategies for improving your company culture and performance by increasing your numbers of technical women.
Navigating challenges in IA people management at IAC19Carol Smith
Whether you are building a team, managing experience practitioners or navigating career changers, managing a team of creative and analytical IA practitioners can be challenging. The welcome change towards diverse and inclusive hiring practices can add even more challenges.
Learn how an experienced manager navigated through painful challenges and wonderful successes while managing large and small design departments in organizations with employees around the world. Presented at IA Conference 2019 in Orlando Florida by Carol Smith.
How does technology empower women?
What are the latest trends in the sector?
Which initiatives exist to diversify that field?
What can you do to shift the balance?
Prototyping for Beginners - Pittsburgh Inclusive Innovation Summit 2019Carol Smith
To design for inclusion we often must try out different ideas. In this interactive session you'll learn about all types of prototyping and how to get feedback on your ideas from your users. This session will briefly introduce a variety of prototypes and materials and evaluation methods for early learning.
Participants will have time to build a quick prototype and practice getting feedback on it. We'll cover designing for accessibility and inclusion even at the prototype stage. You'll have the information you need to launch your ideas as early as possible to learn from the experience and improve more quickly.
Presented at the Pittsburgh Inclusive Innovation Summit March 30, 2019 held at Point Park University.
Making Great User Experiences at Cleveland C# .Net Meetup July 27 2017Carol Smith
Everything is designed, yet some interactions are much better than others. What does it take to make a great experience? Carol introduces basic concepts in user experience design that you can use to improve your work. You'll learn the basics of: cognitive psychology; accessibility; design thinking; interaction design; and visual design. These concepts work together to make great user experiences and Carol will help you to understand how this work can be integrated into your existing software development process.
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Devopsdays Berlin 2015 - Keynote - KataJohn Willis
A presentation based on Mike Rother's Toyota Kata and Steven Spears High Velocity Edge. I use Etsy, 2003 Columbia Shuttle, and Alcoa as good Kata and Bad Kata examples...
Is it all about teaching a student subjects?, or their are more life skills and matters that are required for them to succeed in life! In this presentation, you will find some of the concepts that many parents never share with their children especially about Sex Education.
An introduction to Computer Programming, an overview of various programming concepts and what makes scratch programming better for high school students
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) CoursesKimera Richard
Various undergraduate courses exist and most of them are offered by Mbarara University of Science and Technology. It is therefore very important for high/secondary school students to know the possible combinations that can help them pursue STEM related courses.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers Kimera Richard
Jobs, experiences and trainings always drive us to our careers. Google supports Mbarara University to deliver, educate and inspire the Girl child to understand the available opportunities that exist if they are to take up STEM related courses
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Devopsdays Berlin 2015 - Keynote - KataJohn Willis
A presentation based on Mike Rother's Toyota Kata and Steven Spears High Velocity Edge. I use Etsy, 2003 Columbia Shuttle, and Alcoa as good Kata and Bad Kata examples...
Is it all about teaching a student subjects?, or their are more life skills and matters that are required for them to succeed in life! In this presentation, you will find some of the concepts that many parents never share with their children especially about Sex Education.
An introduction to Computer Programming, an overview of various programming concepts and what makes scratch programming better for high school students
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) CoursesKimera Richard
Various undergraduate courses exist and most of them are offered by Mbarara University of Science and Technology. It is therefore very important for high/secondary school students to know the possible combinations that can help them pursue STEM related courses.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers Kimera Richard
Jobs, experiences and trainings always drive us to our careers. Google supports Mbarara University to deliver, educate and inspire the Girl child to understand the available opportunities that exist if they are to take up STEM related courses
What it takes to be a digital woman: Review by TrendsSpottingTaly Weiss
This presentation was presented at Microsoft's Women Think Next conference. I reviewed the current state of women in the business world, and focused on digital women. I used research done by Harvard Business Review to show the age breakdown where women leave technology professions and simply break out from the industry.
My presentation ends with practical tips: how women working in IT companies can use the Social Media to professionally lead and influence.
I have described that as a "work around" option. Companies success in Social Media relies on the professional team members sharing their insights and works. I believe that women can find that stage as a source for learning, improving and leading. .
You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!Cisco CTAO
Monique Morrow, Cisco CTO –Evangelist-New Frontiers-Engineering gave her talk "You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!" at the SIT International Symposium on Gender Equality 2015 held in the SHIBAURA Institute of Technology, Japan. She presented the real situation of women in tech, and delivered the call to action on "SHE Economy" to change the world for our future, Internet of Women!
It is often said that girls either are not interested in STEM subjects or are left out for various reasons. Some of this “common knowledge” is actually a myth – girls are interested in SOME STEM areas, such as biology, but not others, such as computer science. This session will take a deep dive into these myths and realities to discover what is really attractive to girls in elementary and secondary schools in STEM subjects.
Participants will learn about the Maker Movement and the potential to bring new tools and technology to K-12 classrooms to support hands-on learning across all grades and curriculum – but particularly STEM and STEAM. The implications of the Maker Movement are two-fold. One is that many of the technological inventions support areas that are of particular interest to girls, such as inventions that help people, sewable electronics, e-textiles, bio-materials, and community projects. The second is that the collaborative, tinkering nature of the Maker Movement dovetails with girls ability to work collaboratively and in a connected way. By exploring best practices from schools around the world that have successfully created strong STEM programs for girls, the participants in this session will be able to take away ideas and resources that will be of use in their own schools and districts.
(This was a session presented at ISTE 2015.)
(All citations can be found at http://sylviamartinez.com/girls-stem
AI and the Researcher: ChatGPT and DALL-E in Scholarly Writing and PublishingErin Owens
The artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, prompting concerns about student plagiarism. But A.I. text and image generators also pose ethical and legal conundrums for scholarly researchers. This session will delve into some of the emerging issues and developments that may affect faculty in scholarly writing and publishing.
Women in Product Management - Perilous Path or Rewarding Roadmap? (Xenia Kwee...ProductCamp Boston
An opportunity to network with other women in product management/product marketing and share stories. What unique challenges do women face? What unique capabilities do women bring to the role? How have you gone about finding role models or mentors? How have you gone about overcoming obstacles? A session filled with stories, facts, ideas, observations, and jokes.
Created this past May as a means to raise the awareness of educators and innovators in Mississippi about the future of education and how AI, Big Data, Virtual Reality, self-paced eLearning, Intelligent virtual classroom environments and telecommunications will change educational practice.
Zakaj v startup svetu nikoli ni vrste pred ženskim straniščem?Alja Isakovic
Why is the tech startup world still heavily dominated by men? And what can we do to get more women involved? Slides for a talk presented @ Startup Day at Kino Šiška (http://coworking.si/napovedujemo-startup-dan-v-kinu-siska/)
GDG Cloud Southlake 28 Brad Taylor and Shawn Augenstein Old Problems in the N...James Anderson
GDG Cloud Southlake #28: Brad Taylor and Shawn Augenstein: Old Problems in the New Frontiers of AI
• Brad discusses how decades-old laws and expanding regulation have new implications in the ML and Large Model age, and will touch on:
• Legal and Regulatory: Data usage rights, cautionary tale of stability.ai and Getty Images, EU's planned expansion of GDPR re models
• How Neural Networks, zero and one-shot learning, and LLMs have increased the need for better data governance, lineage management
• Shawn speaks on the coming "Data Renaissance"
• The New IP: Prompts and Internatl Interaction Data
• Where GenAI can be used right now and where it maybe shouldn't be used yet
• The Power of the Diversity of Insight
• What is making the future look bright!
Brad has been an intrapreneur and entrepreneur in data, AI, and IoT and has led teams in the creation of NLP, data products and predictive analytics for retention, churn, driver safety, traffic, CX and fleet risk. He has built solutions on global hyperscalers GCP, AWS, Azure, and IBM. Brad is a former founding partner at Tech Wildcatters, and worked with dozens of mobile, SaaS and AI start-ups, many of which became both job creators and profitable exits for TW investors. He is currently a Senior Manager in Pepsico's global Strategy and Transformation group, where he focuses on delivering AI/ML driven solutions.
Shawn Augenstein is a dynamic and highly experienced professional, who is driven by educating, providing equal access to technology and equitable access to information. Currently, Shawn serves as Principal Data & AI Consultant at CDW, where he develops the curriculum and architectures for understanding and furthering the use of AI, as well as developing solutions for both partners and clients. In his spare time, he enjoys exploring new frontiers of Diffusers, capturing moments through photography, and listening to music as a passionate melophile.
If a student is involved in taking up STEM related courses at all levels, what opportunities could they have especially here in Uganda! The presentation talks about the local competitions for high school students, scholarships both local and international and how to access them.
This presentation was made during the STEM gender mainstreaming workshop in Uganda. It focused on how a school administrator can become a role model to the students
1. Gender and Computing
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Brought to you by:
Dr. Musiimenta Angella and
Mr. Ampaire Collins
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2. Background Contexts
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Gender: Does not mean a
female thing!
Computing = STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) fields
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3. Women have been in Computing since
its inception!
• Women were computational pioneers of
the ENIAC-the worlds first computer
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used by the American Army. E.g Grace
Hoper developed the first compiler for
ENIAC
• Women were the first computer
programmers e.g Ada Lovelace was the
first woman to write an algorithm for
execution on an ENIAC machine.
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4. Women in Computing: Why so few?
• Video demo
• Though the first computer programmers were females,
women currently make up only a small fraction of the
computing industry. This lack of diversity jeopardizes
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technical innovation, creativity and profitability.
• E.g. gender analysis in the participants and
coordinators of this workshop!!
• As demand for talented computing professionals grows,
both academia and industry are seeking ways to reach
out to groups of individuals who are underrepresented in
computing, the largest of which is women.
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5. STEM Decision Making: Why So Few Women?
• The potential of women continues to be
underutilized. Women are under-
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represented in all STEM decision-making
structures (e.g. policy and regulatory
institutions, ministries and boards of
STEM companies)
• In STEM administrative positions, very
few women benefit and these are
normally paid lowest wages compared
to male counter parts
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6. Computing Jobs: Why So Few Women?
Women are found in
disproportionately high numbers in the
lowest paid and least secure jobs at
the lower end of the supply chain.
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They hold jobs as:
o Data entry,
Google
o Phone operations,
o Clerk
Yet, there is more to this
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7. Is Computing an Man’s field?
• Men dominate in higher paid work in
hardware and software engineering and
management.
• This may appear to be because of the
lack of women engaged in the field,
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however,
Google
• Evidence shows that employers’
biases hinder STEM qualified women
from gaining positions in these fields
or rising in the company’s hierarchy.
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8. Is Computing an Man’s field?...
•Failure
to employ women skilled in
STEM businesses means:
•Loss of capacity that has economic
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impacts well beyond the life of each
individual woman.
•Hundreds of people lose through wealth
left unrealized,
•Millions of dollars may be lost from
resources that could have better served
the needs of people.
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9. Food for Thought: Why So Few?
It was a woman who:
•Developed the first compiler,
•Identified the first computer bug, and
•Created the first computer program,
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•but women are still underrepresented!!!
Group Brainstorming Session:
1. What factors hinder girls uptake of computer studies
in secondary schools?
2. How can we improve girls’ up take of computer
studies?
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10. Bringing Women on Board in Computing
Education = technical skills = computing jobs
Good governance and empowerment: Policies and
programmes meant to improve access and women participation
e.g. scholarships or reduced University entry points.
Support Groups e.g. intermediary women-based organizations
that provide computing support, scholarships and books for
women in STEM e.g. Google Anita Borg Scholarship, Google
Sponsored by
Zawadi Africa scholarships, Society of Women Engineers
(SWE), the UN’s Tech-Careers portal for girls and Women,
and the UN's Division for the Advancement of
Google
Women(conferences).
To do: Check the above for upcoming events and
opportunities!
Role Models that have a high profile of success as regards to
women contribution e.g. ADA, Grace Hopper, who developed
the first computer program and the first compiler.
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11. Bringing Women on Board in Computing...
Making of Computing a requirement, or a highly
recommended option for students in their early years e.g.
computer studies in secondary schools
Trained instructors that encourage women to take STEM
fields
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Strategies to change negative attitudes
Parental involvement
Encouraging gender equality e.g. equal salaries for both
men and women—this sends a strong signal that both
women and men are deemed to be critical assets in STEM
fields.
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Thank you for your time and contributions
To do: Check our blog (ICT4All) for inspirational videos!
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