Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Computing Diversity Engineering Diversity General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Special Topic(s): |
Women and Information Technology Engineering Photo Competition Anita Borg Institute's Virtual Development Center (VDC) BPC Nomination |
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Community - General |
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Unknown |
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| Description: | California-based organization whose mission is to increase the impact of women on technology and to increase the positive impact of technology on women's lives. Formerly called the Institute for Women and Technology, it now bears the name of its distinguished founder, Anita Borg. Includes information about its initiatives and links to related sites. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology: (1) Provides platforms so that women's voices, ideas, and spirits are able to influence technology. (2) Is a global resource for industry, academia, and government to help them identify, attract, develop and retain women leaders in technology and (3) Engages and empowers women. Systers was started by Anita Borg and is the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 as a small electronic mailing list for women in “systems”. Today, Systers broadly promotes the interests of women in the computing and technology fields. Anita created Systers to “increas[e] the number of women in computer science and mak[e] the environments in which women work more conducive to their continued participation in the field.” (Read Why Systers?) It serves this purpose by providing women a private space to seek advice from their peers, and discuss the challenges they share as women technologist. |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
Academic Achievement (i) Engage in life-long learning Engagement |
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Goals Journals |
| Use of Resource: |
general information This resource is part of the digital library for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). See : http://www.needs.org/needs/view.jhtml?id=93BD4DB0-B2C2-4C04-8915-3E29532EFEF1 |
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Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
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| Publication Date: | February 2005 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.anitaborg.org/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
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