Proceedings of the
Informatics Education Europe II Conference
IEEII 2007
1
“Ada Web Portal”:
Promoting Women Access to Informatics
Emanuela Boschetto – Agostino Cortesi
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Abstract.
The...
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Proceedings of the
Informatics Education Europe II Conference
IEEII 2007
1
“Ada Web Portal”:
Promoting Women Access to Informatics
Emanuela Boschetto – Agostino Cortesi
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Abstract.
The gender gap in Informatics education is becoming an issue.
The number of
women enrolling in bachelor programs on Informatics in Italian Universities has dramatically
decreased by about 30% on the last three years.
Nowadays, only 15% of the Informatics
students are female, while the global percentage of Italian girls at University is about 55%.
The Ada Web Portal we present in this paper is the first action of a larger project called ADA
– Promoting Women Access to Informatics.
The aim of this web portal is to facilitate
communication and to share experiences between girls, teachers and women working in ICT,
both at University and elsewhere.
It extends the concept of web site beyond the specific
target of girl students and it is able
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