FW: Call for Nominations: Anita Borg Award for Social Impact / Submission deadline 15 April, 2004

[Katalin Fabian]

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> Subject: Call for Nominations: Anita Borg Award for Social Impact / Submission
> deadline 15 April, 2004
>
>> From AWID list
> Call for Nominations: Anita Borg Award for Social Impact /
> Submission deadline 15 April, 2004 **extended** / For more
> information, please contact
> the Chair of the Anita Borg Social Impact Award Committee, Ellen
> Lapham, at
> elapham at aimhigh1.com
>
> In a world that she saw as rapidly using technology across all
> borders and
> human boundaries, Anita Borg spoke out on behalf of a large,
> underrepresented
> segment of the world's population - women. She believed
> emphatically that
> women's lives must benefit from technology. Anita Borg stressed
> that women's
> voices, representing multiple approaches and priorities, are
> essential and
> that where women define the benefits, technology is developed for
> the good as
> well as for profit. Throughout her life, she worked to make her
> vision of
> relevant, valuable technology become the norm. This award was
> created to
> honor those who fulfill her vision.
>
> The Anita Borg Institute will present this award at each Grace
> Hopper
> Conference. The first award will be presented at the 2004 Grace
> Hopper
> Celebration, October 6-9, 2004 in Chicago , Illinois . In
> addition, the award
> recipient will receive a cash grant of $10,000.
>
> This award identifies achievements by an individual or team who
> has increased
> the positive impact of technology on the lives of women.
>
> * Impact will be measured by the degree and type of social
> change, amount of
> women's increased empowerment through the technology or increased
> influence
> over technology.
> * The award recipient may have developed the technology,
> motivated social
> change and empowerment through that technology, or increased
> women's
> influence over and decision-making about technology.
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> ___Deadline: April 15, 2004
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