Monique Morrow, Cisco CTO –Evangelist-New Frontiers-Engineering gave her talk "You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!" at the SIT International Symposium on Gender Equality 2015 held in the SHIBAURA Institute of Technology, Japan. She presented the real situation of women in tech, and delivered the call to action on "SHE Economy" to change the world for our future, Internet of Women!
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You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!
1. You are The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!
Monique Jeanne Morrow, mmorrow@cisco.com, Twitter: @mjmorrow
• CTO –Evangelist-New Frontiers-Engineering
December 5 2015
10. Diversity Enhances Teams
Groups with greater diversity solve complex problems
better and faster than homogenous groups.
Scott Page, The difference: How the power of diversity creates
better groups, firms, schools, and societies, Princeton
University Press, 2009.
12. Let’s Cut to the Chase
Technical
Women
Aren’t
Broken
Technical
Men
Aren’t
The Enemy
Culprit = Societal
Biases
We All Share
We Can Take
Action
Together
13. How Stereotype Threat Shows Up in
Technical Environments
• Not speak up in meetings
• Be reluctant to take leadership positions
• Be overly harsh about their own work
• Discount their performance
14. Subtle Dynamics Example:
Micro-inequities
Slights: “Actually, Susan has a good idea.”
Exclusion: “Oops, I forgot to cc her on the
email about the architecture review.”
Recognition: “No, I’m pretty sure Jane
would not have had the idea to use a link
algorithm.”
Isolation: “Dude, let’s talk about it over a beer!”
15. Hiring
Selecting people “like me”
Task Assignment
Women find themselves in “low status” jobs
Performance Appraisal
Men appraised for effort, skill; women for collaboration, luck
Promotion
Criteria modeled implicitly on existing senior male leaders
Institutional Barriers
17. If you don't like the
way the world is, you
change it. You have an
obligation to change it.
You just do it one step
at a time.
– Marian Wright Edelman
18. Aspiring for A Supercritical Human Elevated Economy
[SHE] integrating human values is an opportunity to
innovate for jobs. This will mean more flow of ideas, more
flow of innovation, and much more possibilities of
expansion.
SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
19. SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
The Technology of the SHE platform
•The Open Source will be a key modality for this platform, while a block
chain technology can retain a trust ledger for the SHE platform. SHE API
governance will be via an auction mechanism to determine the value of a
proposed API.
•Open Source is one of the more successful concepts that catalyzes
innovation and leads to opportunities.
• Open Source utilizes the power of the crowd to develop, modify, share and
improve, available to anyone in the world. Mozilla Firefox and the Arduino
board for robotics are both example of Open Source software platforms that
are used and improved by people around the world for free.
20. • GitHub will provide the foundation for the platform, enabling Open Source
collaboration and development. Women from all over the world can work
together, learn from one another, and empower one another to succeed, all
via access to the Internet and through smart phone and tablets.
• There are many startup companies working on disrupting education in
general, propelled by increased access through the Internet.
• Companies like XPRIZE are helping to catalyze innovation in the education
space through multi-million dollar incentivized prizes to software developers
who successfully develop self teaching software that a child can figure out
with no human intervention.
SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
21. • Imagine dropping a charged tablet into a remote village that had never seen a
smartphone or tablet, and within hours not only would the children have
figured out how to turn it on, but they self taught opening and playing with
applications.
• In order to financially democratize the platform, block chain technology, also
known as digital currency, can be employed.
• This is where multiple encryption techniques can be used to regulate, record
and verify money transfer between parties, and operates completely
independently of a traditional bank without concern for geographical, cultural,
religious or political borders.
SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
22. • Implement a media campaign showing men advocating for women and highlighting women leaders;
• Also produce a film as a call to action like:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGGrUx666s
• Showcase women leaders historically in education, schools;
• Think of an equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the company-country that embraces women as equal partners;
• Emphasize Mentorship and networking opportunities in Japan and private industry levels – show case these
examples engaging men and women together;
• Support hackathons for girls and women by women with men as coaches; e.g iotchallenge-cisco.younoodle.com
• Encourage skills training for women mid-latter careers, “It’s Never Too Late “ Campaign;
• Encourage mixed gender panels for conferences;
• Support female entrepreneur “pitches” with coaching sessions before mixed gender judges.
Some Recommendations
25. Simply put, once women
connect, they engage;
once then engage, they
embrace; once they
embrace, they drive.
And that’s the future.
It is the Internet of
Women!
Notes de l'éditeur
- amazingly when it comes to gender equality as a basis for a 21st century digital society, the failure to include this category of our world population as catalysts for change is great, even more so tragic.
Gender-Equality often takes a second seat to “other economic issues of importance “ yet Gender Equality is foundational for those other issues.
Do not under-estimate the impact culture, media and education have as a catalyst for change, simply put, “If you cannot see it, you cannot be it.”
but the size and range of our problems has barely changed. Despite all of our previous efforts to affect the status quo through the Millennium Development Goals, the same complex structural issues persist and affect billions worldwide. These are our results as institutions, but young people, 15-24, have been hard at work identifying and developing solutions to global problems, and this trend is not to be underestimated.
The creative strategies of youth tackling varying elements of these widespread problems, from education access and infrastructure development to sexual harassment and gender equality, have demonstrated the necessity of leveraging technology in ways we had never imagined. Young people have spurred a newfound literacy in our approach to economic development and cooperative problem solving. Therefore, the priority must be supporting driven young people striving to improve their communities.
Government and industry support is vital to achieving these goals at scale. We have seen disparate examples of such public-private partnerships steadily emerging around the world. Yet while there is much conversation about supporting young people, a lack of action persists. Still, an international focus that prioritizes capturing and applying lessons from narratives of youth innovation will engender limitless possibilities for sustainable transformation.
Cybersecurity
1) WOMEN REFLECT CUSTOMER BASE 2) WOMEN IMPROVE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 3) WOMEN CAN FILL GROWING # OF JOBS 4) WOMEN IMPROVE COMPANY PERFORMANCE
1) If 50% of your user base isn’t represented in your design team, how can you expect to know what women want, or how they will use your product?
2) The presence of women in a group is more likely to increase the collective intelligence (problem-solving ability, creativity) of the group than the presence of individuals with higher intelligence. (“Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups,” Science October 2010, Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi and Malone.) Groups with greater diversity solve complex problems better and faster than homogenous groups. (Scott Page, The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies, Princeton University Press, 2009.)
3) Women are 50% of the workforce. There will be an estimated 1.4 million computing-related jobs in the workforce by 2020, yet at current graduation rates we’ll produce only enough candidates to fill 30% of those jobs. Meanwhile, women are earning more than half of all undergraduate degrees, more than 60% of biology degrees, 42% of math degrees. They are a untapped workforce.
4) Analysis of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies showed that successful startups have twice as many women in senior positions as unsuccessful companies. (Dow Jones VentureSource, 2011.) Tech companies with women have been shown to use 40 percent less capital and be more likely to survive the transition from startup to established company. (Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures: "High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High-Tech," 2010.) Tech companies with the highest representation of women in their management teams have a 34% higher return on investment than those with few or no women. (Catalyst, The Bottom Line, 2004.)
Let’s consider this diversity thing with a non-gender-related problem. Any left-handers here? A couple of years ago a major company released a very popular phone, and people quickly began to complain about dropped calls when the phone was held a certain way. Turns out that because of where the company positioned the antenna in this phone, this problem particularly affected left-handed people, who happened to hold the phone in the “wrong” way more often. WE ALL EXPERIENCE THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY and it’s important to bring as many of those experiences as possible into the development and design of technology.
(The company’s charismatic founder was ambidextrous, BTW.)
We are going to roll through a ton of social science research in 10 minutes – we won’t do it justice
All of these examples are subtle, tiny jabs that erode a woman’s sense of belonging, confidence, her sense that she fits in. For the men involved, it’s also subtle, right? It’s not like this is discrimination, here. Again, it’s the fact that these things are said unconsciously, that they speak to the status quo, that make them insidious.
Can make women feel as if they don’t really belong and can undermine the meritocracy of your organizations.
Class room example
Technology, for us, is the bull. What is needed is to train more women to hold the bull by its horns and create a new generation of tech-females. Imagine disrupting unemployment via a Global Supercritical Human Elevated Economy platform powered by women using open source software and where the consumption is via a smart device. Imagine disrupting the cultural barriers via the SHE Platform