Women In Technology - Friday Links - 11/10/2024
Hello everybody,
This week we celebrated the Ada Lovelace Day with an insightful talk on Gender, AI, and Human Rights by Caitlin Kraft-Buchman of Women at the Table, in which she showed us some of the many examples of the impact of gender bias on training AI, and how this affects healthcare, safety, environmental policy, hiring decisions, and more. Caitlin has kindly provided us with some links to a few resources in case you want to learn more:
Health
The ‘huge disadvantage’ women behind femtech phenomenon face:
Despite advances in medicine, women experience “unacceptable” inequities across all aspects of their health, spend more years living with ill health and still face barriers to accessing basic care:
And the winner is
It is Nobel Prize announcements period; stay tuned:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about/prize-announcement-dates/
Women that inspire me
Strength and vulnerability: the artist behind some of the most iconic New Yorker Magazine covers, explains wonderfully her latest one:
https://www.tiktok.com/@newyorker/video/7420195461450992938
Open Source Policy
The FOSSi Foundation is contributing to a community-wide effort to provide European policy makers with an actionable roadmap for future funding of the open source EDA ecosystem. They are currently collecting community feedback on the current working document, ideally before October 15.
https://fossi-foundation.org/resources/eu-roadmap
Street Names?
The city of Geneva is celebrating the renaming of certain street names, to honour women who contributed to the history of Geneva or to significant moments in the struggle for equity, by connecting these streets and locations through a bicycle parade!
Maybe sometime soon we will also have more women street names to pass through the Passport to the Big Bang🤞
Upcoming events
🍵 Join us on your coffee break for a WIT get together on Monday at 10h in R1: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1464457/
⌨️ Swiss Data Science Centre & EPFL Hackathon
Open Science, Open Research Data, and Open Access are not just buzzwords; they're transforming the research landscape and shaping the future. This hackathon is your chance to dive into these groundbreaking concepts and collaborate on innovative solutions that will propel tomorrow's research. Let’s bring these ideas down to earth and create tangible tools that will empower researchers everywhere.
🚀Moving Out of Academia to Aviation & Aerospace on 25 October: https://alumni.cern/events/157083
Wishing you all a wonder-fall weekend,
Eva for wit-communications
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About the Women in Technology (WIT) Community: The aim of this community is to provide an environment in which women are not in the minority when interacting with technology. Our objectives are: to encourage women to play the role of expert; to provide a supportive learning environment; and to build a network between the Women in Technology here at CERN. WIT welcomes members from all genders and all technical fields. Visit cern.ch/wit