Center for Women and Information Technology: International Taskforce on Women and ICTs

The Re-Engineering Development: Engendering ICTs meeting launched a consortium of global leaders and practitioners to create synergy in efforts to increase women’s full participation in ICTs: from engineering to software, to access and use, to literacy and leadership. The network will, based on its Guiding Principles (http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/Declaration.html): promote communication and information exchange; increase sharing of research, knowledge, and resources; develop a series of collaborative activities; and promote recommendations for policy and programming. The goal is to ensure that the participation of women in engineering, education, and employment in ICT globally is measurably and significantly increased within five years.

Overview

Secretariat

Claudia Morrell, Executive Director, Center for Women and Information Technology, (CWIT)*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Bria McElroy, Director of International Relations, Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Tonia Blackwood, CEO, BR MarketLaunch, USA
Michelle Miller, Liaison, Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

* Secretariat Chair

Steering Committee

Gloria Bonder, Chair, UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America, Argentina
Siobhan Bredin, Project Director, NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center, Education Development Center, USA
Eva Fabry, Papirbredden Innovasjon Norway, Member of the STC of WINNET Europe
Nancy Hafkin, Director, Knowledge Working, USA
Ann Holmes, Principal Consultant, Ann Holmes & Associates, and Board Member, WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, Canada
Sophia Huyer, Executive Director, WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, Canada
Kio Chung Kim, Executive Director, APEC Women’s e-Biz Center, Asian Pacific Women’s Information Network Center (APWINC), Korea
Marina Larios, President, European Association for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiTEC), UK
Tegwin Pulley, Vice President, Texas Instruments, USA
Chat Garcia Ramilo, Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), Philippines
Barbara Waugh, Director of University Relations, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

Advisory Committee

Behjat Al Yousuf, Associate Director, Dubai Women’s College – Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), United Arab Emirates
Frank Stefan Becker, Corporate Communications, Siemens AG, Germany
Rim Belhaj, Executive Board, National Union of Tunisian Women, Tunisia
Patrice Braun, Deputy Director, Centre for Regional Innovation and Competitiveness, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Marilyn Carr, International Women’s Tribune Centre and WIGSAT - Women, knowledge, technology, UK
Michela Cipeletti, Cisco Systems, Italy
Renee Clair, Gender and Science Focal Point, UNESCO, France
M. Bernardine Dias, Research Faculty, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Ghana
Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director, IT for Change, Bangalore, India
Tina James, icteum consulting, Lynnwood Ridge, South Africa
Wayne Johnson, Vice President of World Wide University Relations, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Russel Jones, President of Standing Committee on Capacity Building, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), USA
Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director General for Communication and Information, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator, GAID Secretariat, United Nations, USA
Irina Khomeriki, Head of Georgian Branch Office, International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), Tbilisi, Georgia
Paula Koda, Director of Sales, AT&T, China
Anita Komlodi, Professor, Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Alethea Lodge-Clarke, Program Manager, Public Private Partnerships, Microsoft, USA
Mmabatho Matiwane, Director of Gender and Women’s Empowerment Unit, South Africa
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Professor, Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil
Kayoko Shibata Medlin, Gender Knowledge Management Analyst, Gender and Development Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank, USA
Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank, USA
Lueny Morell, Director of University Relations for Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Monique Morrow, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Switzerland
Dorothy Okello, Executive Director, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), Uganda
Natasha Primo, Executive Director, WomensNet, South Africa
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)’s Secretariat, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Heba Ramzy, Regional Lead, Citizenship and Community Affairs, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft, Turkey
Raj Rengalakshmi, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Heidi Schelhowe, Professor, Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany
Marianne Schwarz da Silva, Project Manager Networking, European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS), Belgium
Chetan Sharma, Founder and President, Datamation Foundation, India
Revi Sterling, Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Ramata Thioune, Program Officer, Women’s Rights and Citizenship, Acacia (Communities and the Information Society in Africa), Senegal
Desiree van Welsum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
Gisele Yitamben, Executive Director, ASAFE Knowledge Academy for Development, Cameroon

Observer Organizations

Sandra Charles, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada
Nancy Pascall, Gender Policy Coordinator, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
Rosalie Zobel, Director, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
Sanye Gulser Corat, Head of Women and Gender Equality, Bureau of Strategic Planning, UNESCO, France

Member Organizations

American Association of University Women http://www.aauw.org/index.cfm

AAUW Educational Foundation http://www.aauw.org/ef/index.cfm

APC WNSP, http://www.apcwomen.org/eng_index.html

ASAFE, Africa, www.asafe.org

Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria www.apwen.org

ATEF, Italy, http://www.atef.org/

Bellanet International Secretariat www.bellanet.org

Business and Professional Women Germany e.V. www.bpw-germany.de

Center for Ecological, Economic, and Ethical Education, USA

Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS), Germany http://www.cews.org

Center for Gender Equity, Camano Island, Washington, U.S.A www.josanders.com

Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, U.S.A. www.umbc.edu/cwit

Copen Family Funds, a private foundation

Computer Science Teachers Association, U.S.A. http://csta.acm.org

Datamation Foundation

DeVry University Business Women in Information, Science, and Engineering program (BWISE) http://facweb.phi.devry.edu/clubs/wise/devry_wise_programs.htm

e-Business Center Peking University, People’s Republic of China www.ebc.pku.edu.cn

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), USA www.edc.org

E-knowledge for Women in Southern Africa EKOWISA, Zimbabwe, Africa www.ekowisa.org.zw

Femtec, Germany www.femtec-berlin.de

Friends of the John William Education Center, Inc. www.fjwec.org

Gender, Diversities & Technology Institute, U.S.A. www.edc.org/GDI

Gender Perspectives Opening Diversity for Information Society Technology (GIST), Germany http://www.e-gist.net

Global Alliance for Diversifying the Workforce in Science and Engineering www.globalalliancesmet.org

Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN) www.gwiin.org

GONE RURAL, Malkerns, Swaziland, Africa www.goneruralswazi.com

Hansen Partnership, Inc. www.HansenPartnership.com

Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated, Staten Island, New York www.helpinghandsinitiative.org

ICT & Education, Zutphen, Netherlands www.ict-edu.nl

iEARN Egypt http://www.iearnegypt.org

iEARN Lebanon http://www.iea.org.lb, http://www.iearnlb.org

iEARN-Pangea, Barcelona, Spain

iEARN Slovenia http://www.ljudmila.org/iearn/index_h0.htm

iEARN Tunisia

iEARN UK, www.iearnuk.org

iEARN-USA, http://us.iearn.org/

Immaculata University of Immaculata, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. http://www.immaculata.edu/

Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science, U.S.A www.iwitts.com

Institute of Social and Gender Policy, Russia www.genderpolicy.ru

Interactive Education and Resource Network (iEARN), Macedonia www.imor.org.mk

International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists www.inwes.org

The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) www.irex.org

Irene Namatovu, MTN Uganda

IRMA-India http://www.irma-india.org

John William Montessori School, Kumasi, Ghana www.jwms.org

Matilda Amissah, Matamiss Enterprise, Ghana, West Africa

Peggy Meszaros, Ph.D.; CFCS, William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development Director, Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. http://www.humandevelopment.vt.edu/appliedmastersmain.htm

MentorNet www.MentorNet.net

MINÖK, Hungarian Network of Women, Hungary

National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, USA www.napequity.org

National Center for Women and Information Technology, U.S.A. www.ncwit.org

Nigerian Society of Engineers www.nse.org.ng

NRC – The Swedish National Federation of Resource Centers for Women http://www.nrckvinnor.org

Orillas-iEARN Center

PTC, the Product Development Company, http://www.ptc.com/

QUIN-Estonia www.quinest.ee

Research Group Digital Media in Education of the University of Bremen, Germany http://www.dimeb.de

Roumania Chamber of Deputies, Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women, Roumania.

SM Consulting, U.S.A. www.smcteam.com