Be a Game Changer for diversity: apply for the DiversIT Charter
Let’s celebrate the International Women‘s Day by participating in an initiative that can really change the life of women on STEM positions. Apply for the DiversIT Charter!
Call for submissions: Minerva Informatics Equality Award
The submissions process for the Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award is now open. The Award recognises best practices in Departments or Faculties of European universities or research institutes and labs that have been demonstrated to have a positive impact for women.
BCS and Coding Black Females (CBF) announce inclusion partnership
As a part of BCS commitment to make IT more inclusive and engage with a greater diversity of people, BCS and CBF announced a joint bursary which will see over 70 individual members of CBF provided with BCS membership, as well as a range of mentoring and other career development benefits.
Gender-biased language discourages 50 % of women from ICT careers
Research by telecoms firm Openreach into the language of its job postings found that gender-biased language holds around 50 % of women back from applying for ICT roles.
CEPIS DiversIT team talks to companies: Vodafone Turkey
Vodafone Turkey HR Director on the company’s diversity initiatives: Reaching gender balance and having an equal workplace is one of the most important targets of Vodafone Turkey. To have that, we make a great effort to empower, employ and retain female talents for technical roles with hiring KPIs.
CEPIS DiversIT team talks to companies: Microsoft Italy
Microsoft Italy’s Customer Experience & Support Division and Inclusion and Diversity Lead on diversity in the new norDiversity is one of Microsoft culture pillars. In the old and in the new normal we are strongly committed to build teams with different representation for ages, gender and ability.
CEPIS DiversIT team talks to companies: IBM Italy
IBM Italy’s Engineer and Executive Architect shares the company’s main initiatives for increasing diversity in their tech teams.
DiversIT Charter launched on 26 November
The CEPIS DiversIT Charter was launched at an online conference on 26 November. The event was very successful, with more than 100 attendees, and included high-profile keynote speakers and panellists from the European Commission, the European Parliament, private and non-governmental sectors who discussed topics from the importance of gender diversity in general to specific best practices to attract and retain female tech talents.
Women still less likely to work in ICT, 2020 WiD Scoreboard shows
The European Commission recently published the 2020 Women in Digital (WiD) Scoreboard. It shows that, despite various initiatives, women in Europe are still less likely than men to pursue digital careers or have advanced ICT skills.
Women4IT project trainees in Ireland ready for new challenges
If you are looking for motivated and qualified staff for your digital job vacancies, why not think about the Women4IT initiative? The programme has launched different training sessions and is now looking at the ultimate goal of the project: putting the participants back into employment.
