Experience Report: Artificial Intelligence Community for Women
Abstract
The AI Girls tech community aims to promote female leadership in Artificial Intelligence, given the lack of diversity in the area. In this experience report, AI Girls is presented since its foundation. The organization takes place through areas and structured planning meetings between the coordinators. The actions involve various events and projects, such as reading and mentoring articles, always taking into account the needs of the participants. There are currently more than 4000 women in the community and more than 35 hours of content produced in one year. The feedbacks collected through questionaries and written and verbal testimonies attest to the initiative’s success and shape the next steps to be taken.
Keywords:
Women in IT, Community, Artificial Intelligence, Meetups
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Liu, X., He, Q., Tian, Y., Lee, W.-C., McPherson, J., and Han, J. (2012). Event-based social networks: linking the online and offline social worlds. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pages 1032–1040.
Peres, S. B. and Gomes, E. H. (2020). Estudo sobre o empoderamento feminino através de comunidades de tecnologia. In Anais do XIV Women in Information Technology, pages 219–223. SBC.
Sander, T. (2005). E-associations: using technology to connect citizens: the case of meetup. com. American Political Science Association.
Santiago, S. and de Andrade, C. R. (2018). Iniciativas de inserção de mulheres no mercado de tecnologia da informação: Análise das experiências de participantes brasileiros do desafio technovation. In Anais do XII Women in Information Technology. SBC.
Souza, A. C., Perkoski, I., Veiga, K., and Romankiv, V. (2017). Relato tech ladies: redes de colaboração entre mulheres na tecnologia. In Anais do XI Women in Information Technology. SBC.
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Vieira, C. C., Soares, A. C. R., and Ribeiro, S. F. (2017). Incentivos à igualdade de gênero: estudo de caso de uma comunidade formada somente por mulheres da área de tecnologia. In Anais do XI Women in Information Technology. SBC.
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Published
2021-07-18
How to Cite
FERREIRA, Poliana Nascimento; ALMEIDA, Laura Damaceno de; SIQUEIRA, Andressa da Silva; PEREIRA, Beatriz.
Experience Report: Artificial Intelligence Community for Women. In: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (WIT), 15. , 2021, Evento Online.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2021
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p. 170-179.
ISSN 2763-8626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2021.15853.
