[okfn-discuss] Women comfortable at speaking at events...

Mon Nov 25 19:07:21 UTC 2013

Hi Gene, it's refreshing to hear that it isn't a problem in the areas
you are working in! It wasn't advertising but rather letting people know
of this opportunity, as personally in many of the events I've attended,
the gender balance is an issue, and often the reason given is 'we
couldn't find female speakers on xxx tech issue'. I know that amongst
the Open Knowledge Foundation community we're lucky to have a great mix
of people, and I imagined that some of our community members might be
interested in proactively addressing those balance issues through this
initiative.

Also a big +1 to Duncan and Emanuil's comments too; gender diversity is
a problem in tech (like Emanuil- apologies for the lack of data to hand
to back up this assertion!), and this affects our community too,
although we are broadening outside of purely the tech community with our
many great projects and groups!

Zara

On 25/11/2013 18:36, Duncan Edwards wrote:
> I can see a clear link to open knowledge - in the construction, co-construction, and communication of "open" knowledge we need to be considering diversity. If we aren't, are we really talking about open knowledge?
>
> Good to hear this isn't a problem in the areas you're working in. However in many areas, including tech - gender diversity is a problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Duncan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: okfn-discuss [mailto:okfn-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Gene Shackman
> Sent: 25 November 2013 18:12
> To: okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Women comfortable at speaking at events...
>
>
> Is this related to open knowledge? Or is it just advertising.
>
> In the areas I'm in, I don't see any dominance of male speakers.
>
>
> Gene
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 9:11 AM PST Zara Rahman wrote:
>
>> Perhaps this is of interest to you; the Articulate network is a
>> directory of women speakers in tech and creative industries, aimed at
>> "saving the world from all-male conferences, one event at a time." ;-)
>>
>> It's free to sign up, and if you are organising an event you can also
>> browse through potential speakers online too:
>> http://articulate-network.lanyrd.com/
>>
>> Hope to see many more of you speaking at events very soon!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Zara
>>
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