TY - GEN
T1 - WConnect
T2 - 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C and T 2009
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Carroll, John
AU - Zhao, Dejin
AU - Paone, Timothy
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by The National Science Foundation (CNS-0634337). We are grateful to many current and prior team members in the wConnect project: Craig Ganoe, Tisha Hansford, Lauren Hayward, Sam Lolla, Anastassia Ioujanina, Jan Mahar, Nick Oja, Gretel Sheasley, Hansa Sinha and Valerie Werth. We also thank our many participants across levels of development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 ACM.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The under-representation of women in computer and infor-mation science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many interventions are being explored but these are primarily institutional programs like curriculum enhancements and mentoring. We describe wConnect, a developmental learning community that leverages social relations and social networking software to support women in CIS. This is a practical issue of some urgency that presents an opportunity for community informatics to impact the CIS profession. We report our progress and lessons learned, so that other organizations can initiate similar outreach activities.
AB - The under-representation of women in computer and infor-mation science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many interventions are being explored but these are primarily institutional programs like curriculum enhancements and mentoring. We describe wConnect, a developmental learning community that leverages social relations and social networking software to support women in CIS. This is a practical issue of some urgency that presents an opportunity for community informatics to impact the CIS profession. We report our progress and lessons learned, so that other organizations can initiate similar outreach activities.
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U2 - 10.1145/1556460.1556480
DO - 10.1145/1556460.1556480
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049260855
SN - 9781605587134
T3 - C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
SP - 125
EP - 134
BT - C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 June 2009 through 27 June 2009
ER -