News Archive: Blog
Million Dollar IT Babes
These million dollar babes aren't calendar pinups or movie starlets, but intelligent women who run multi-million dollar technology businesses across the IT sector in Australia, where men account for more than 82 percent of all IT employees. The Million $ Babes awards, created by ThoughtWare CEO Sonja Bernhardt, highlight the entrepreneurial ... Read more
Time’s “Best inventions of 2007″
In 2007, the Anita Borg Institute touched the lives of nearly 6,000 women and men through its programs. Although 2008 is well under way and we are working on broadening our reach even more this year, here's a last look at 2007. On the plane in December, I flipped through Time ... Read more
Industry-University collaborations
Senior Technical women at TechLeaders: Leading across cultures are discussing the importance of collaboration between industry and academia. Industry can bring real problems for students and faculty to work on both on a short term and long term basis, while academics want to ensure research experience for their graduate students. Such ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders: Remaining Technical while Becoming an Executive
One of the breakout topics discussed by the senior technical women at TechLeaders this afternoon is how to remain technical while in an executive management position. The recommendations from the group in how to achieve this include: Define the technical requirements of your job as a leader Make it a part of ... Read more
Women of Color Action Network
In November I attended the Women of Color Action Network's (WCAN) annual VIP Reception and Fall Forum held at Yahoo!. WCAN was founded in March 2000 by a group of women who wanted to create an organization that would assist women of color to realize their maximum potential in the ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders Day 2: Dr. Francine Berman
On day 2 of Senior TechLeaders: Leading across culture, keynote speaker Francine Berman, Director of the San Diego SuperComputer Center and Professor of Computer Science at UCSD, continued the discussion of cultural differentiators - Berman talked about the dimensions of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity and feminity, and individualism versus collectivism. Berman talked ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders: Leading Across Cultures
66 eminent technical leaders from industry and academia are gathered at Cisco in Silicon Valley for TechLeaders. The theme is Leading Across Cultures. The workshop is designed to expand particpants' network of senior leaders, their own understanding of their leadership, and increase their collective impact as a group of senior ... Read more
Virtual Bali on OneClimate Island in Second Life
Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of OneWorld.net and speaker at the 2007 TechLeaders for Social Innovators last October, is spearheading an effort with OneWorld to leverage technology to impact global climate change. OneWorld just launched "Virtual Bali," to coincide with the thirteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held on the island of Bali from 3 ... Read more
ABI Advisory Board Meeting: What is the role of policy?
The ABI Board of Advisors meeting in Washington DC, is meeting with Michele Flourney, the co-founder of CNAS, a policy think tank whith the mandate "to help identify the key challenges confronting this generation of Americans in the foreign policy and national security arena." The purpose of the meeting is to brainstorm ... Read more
ABI Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences
The ABI Advisory Board is holding its annual meeting at the National Academies of Sciences in the nation's capital. The newly elected President of the National Academy of Engineering and former President and President Emeritus of MIT, Charles M. Vest, met the group to discuss the issues facing women in science and engineering. Vest highlighted the ... Read more