Awards: Anita Borg Social Impact Award

About

The seventh Anita Borg Social Impact Award, an international prize, will honor an individual or team who has caused technology to have a positive impact on the lives of women and society or who has caused women to have a significant impact on the design and use of technology. The recipient will receive a $10,000 award and will be honored at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing awards celebration in October 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Selection Criteria

• Impact will be measured by:
  • the degree and type of social change,
  • the amount of women’s increased empowerment through the technology or increased influence over technology and
  • its sustainability and scalability.
• 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.

Your nomination may be for a colleague or you may nominate yourself.

Required Materials

Nomination requires the following. Only completed submissions will be considered by the committee.

• Summary: 30 word (maximum) summary of the nominee and project, for the selection committee to use for identification purposes.
• Curriculum vitae or résumé
• Statement of merit between 2 – 3 pages. File uploads can be in PDF, postscript, MS Doc, or ASCII text. The statement must include short bio(s) of the nominated person(s) and address the following issues:
  • Describe the impact and how it was measured.
  • Was the action taken with respect to a specific situation?
  • What motivated the nominee(s) to take action?
  • Did he/she/they encounter any significant challenges?
• At least two letters of reference from professional contacts

The curriculum vitae or resume, statement of merit, and letters of reference must be in PDF, Microsoft Word, or text document available for upload. You will also submit an introductory statement and contact information on the same nomination form. You may be asked to provide additional information or clarify information at the request of the committee chairperson.

Schedule

• Nomination site will open in early February.
• Nominators are notified in July
• Awards celebration in Baltimore, Maryland: October, 2012

 

Selection Committee

TBD

Questions?

Please contact Tina Pratt

About Anita Borg (1949-2003): Anita Borg sought to revolutionize the world and the way we think about technology and its impact on our lives. She devoted much of her life to dismantling the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Her capacity to mix technical expertise and fearless vision inspired, motivated and moved women to embrace technology instead of fearing or ignoring it. She has touched and changed the lives of countless women in the computing fields and beyond. She is responsible for including women in the technological revolution – not as bystanders, but as active participants and leaders.

This award honors those who carry on her vision.