Women in the open web: public interviews for diversity and inclusion

[ UUID ] da15f5d3-2693-4206-900d-998557d1f068

[ Session Name ] Women in the open web: roles, culture and opportunities [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Decentralisation

[ Submitter's Name ] María Cruz [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Wikimedia Foundation [ Submitter's GitHub ] @macruzbar

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[ Language ] Spanish

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

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What will happen in your session?

In this session, we will reflect on the different roles of women in the open web, and the power of public interviews to generate awareness about diversity on the Internet. Participants will work in pairs, one will be the interviewer, and the other the interviewee, and will go over a set of questions prepared in advance. At the end, we'll come back together as a group, and discuss the questions, how to improve them, and the reflections they brought up for participants.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

• To establish a conversation series with women working in the open (code, science, data, knowledge, government...) At the moment, it has only been done among Wikimedia communities (open knowledge), I would like to open this series to other contexts as well.

• To improve the existing organizer kit for this conversation (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities/Organizer%27s_guide)

• To gather more experiences for an ongoing research about women participation in public spaces, and how the open web principles / philosophy is changing this.

Time needed

60 mins