The Norwegian Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research (Komiteen for kjønnsbalanse og mangfold i forskning, Kif), has held annual network conferences with up to 70 participants at Norwegian universities since 2006. After years of focus on gender balance, the Committee's mandate was expanded to include diversity in 2014. However it has maintained its preference for speakers from the majority, white population. In the 10 conferences held since 2006, only one (in 2013) included a non-white speaker. The campaign against #allwhitepanel in Norway has urged the Committee to include speakers of multicultural/minority background in its network conference in Bodø on 18-19 February 2016. As of 15 January, all announced speakers at that event are white. It seems unclear who is responsible for the network conference program. The head of the Committee says they are not responsible, even though the Committee each year publishes the agenda and info articles on its website. The February 2016 conference host, Nord University in Bodø, writes in the web invitation that the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research is the "main initiator" of the conference.

1. STOP
#ALLWHITEPANEL
SPEAKER SELECTIONS BY THE NORWEGIAN
COMMITTEE FOR GENDER BALANCE AND
DIVERSITY IN RESEARCH 2006 - 2016

2. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2006 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

3. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2007 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

4. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2008 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

5. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2009 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

6. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2010 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

7. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2011 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

8. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2012 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

9. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2013 –
SMILEY!
Lisa Cooper,
Head of the
Leadership
Foundation
and African-
American,
spoke about
“Diversity
Leadership”

10. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2014 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

11. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2015 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

12. NETWORK CONFERENCE 2016 -
#ALLWHITEPANEL

13. STOP
#ALLWHITEPANEL
OF ALL 11 CONFERENCES SINCE 2006 AND
DOZENS OF SPEAKERS, ONLY ONE SPEAKER
WAS NON-WHITE,
LISA COOPER IN 2013.