Special Projects (CNS): National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) - Building the Computing Workforce of the 21st Century

特别项目 (CNS)：国家妇女和信息技术中心 (NCWIT) - 建设 21 世纪的计算劳动力

• 批准号: 1203206
• 负责人: Lucinda Sanders
• 金额: $ 894.7万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Special; Projects; CNS; National; Center

The University of Colorado proposes to extend and scale the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) as a means to increase women?s meaningful participation in information technology careers. NCWIT seeks parity in computing for girls and women of all ethnicities, ages, and disability status. NCWIT is a coalition of more than 300 corporations, academic institutions, and non-profits committed to a nationally unified approach for realizing computing reform at all levels. NCWIT?s partnerships and collaborations have broad reach into K-12, higher education, and the U.S. technical and research workforce. NCWIT creates and manages national programs and campaigns to provide an infrastructure for a multi-tiered learning community, making it possible for members to take internal action, pilot reform efforts, collaborate, scale, and innovate. NCWIT research-based resources build capacity for implementing change, raising awareness, and reaching out to critical populations. NCWIT has a strong record of success, and will amplify its impact through (1) extending its learning communities, (2) improving the research base related to diversity and computing and (3) increasing national awareness and voice through collaborative outreach efforts.NCWIT is uniquely situated for successfully overcoming the complex and lingering conditions that hinder women?s participation in computing. Increasing women?s participation in IT has far-reaching national consequences. Not only do information and computing technologies pervade all aspects of our everyday lives in an unprecedented way, but engineering and science discovery and innovation are now increasingly dependent on computational science. Increasing the pool of qualified computing professionals supports the goals of national initiatives and our economic, security, defense, and health care systems are computing-centered. Increasing the participation of women not only supports national goals, but also improves the development and design of computing systems, applications, and products through the integration of diverse ideas while helping to overcome economic disparities for women.

科罗拉多大学提议扩大和扩大国家妇女与信息技术中心 (NCWIT)，以此作为增加女性有意义地参与信息技术职业的一种手段。 NCWIT 致力于为所有种族、年龄和残疾状况的女孩和妇女提供计算方面的平等。 NCWIT 是一个由 300 多家企业、学术机构和非营利组织组成的联盟，致力于采用全国统一的方法来实现各级计算改革。 NCWIT 的伙伴关系和协作广泛涉及 K-12、高等教育以及美国技术和研究人员队伍。 NCWIT 创建和管理国家计划和活动，为多层次学习社区提供基础设施，使成员能够采取内部行动、试点改革工作、协作、规模化和创新。 NCWIT 基于研究的资源可增强实施变革、提高认识和接触关键人群的能力。 NCWIT 拥有良好的成功记录，并将通过以下方式扩大其影响力：(1) 扩展其学习社区，(2) 改善与多样性和计算相关的研究基础，以及 (3) 通过协作外展工作提高国家意识和发言权。NCWIT它具有独特的优势，能够成功克服阻碍女性参与计算机领域的复杂而挥之不去的条件。提高女性对信息技术的参与会对国家产生深远的影响。信息和计算技术不仅以前所未有的方式渗透到我们日常生活的各个方面，而且工程和科学的发现和创新现在也越来越依赖于计算科学。增加合格的计算专业人员队伍可以支持国家计划的目标，而且我们的经济、安全、国防和医疗保健系统都是以计算为中心的。增加女性的参与不仅支持国家目标，而且还可以通过整合不同的想法来改进计算系统、应用程序和产品的开发和设计，同时帮助克服女性的经济差距。