Re: Diversity & Inclusion Leaders at W3C Member Organizations

Hi Heather,

Good to hear that CCG is also looking at DEI opportunities.

While W3C is in the early stages of ramping up on racial diversity 
issues, we have a strong history of diversity around disability 
inclusion, an important aspect of DEI that often goes uncovered in DEI 
efforts generally.

In addition, we have been making some progress on gender issues, partly 
through some of the work on our updated Code of Ethics and Professional 
Conduct (CEPC): https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8641.

I would be happy to talk with you on disability aspects of DEI, to 
update you on W3C's new CEPC, and mention some of what we're hoping to 
accomplish for actions on racial diversity--though again the latter is 
still at planning stage.

Let me know if you'd like to schedule time to talk.

Thanks,

- Judy

On 7/27/2020 12:40 PM, heather vescent wrote:
> Hi Léonie,
>
> Comments below.
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 5:51 AM Léonie Watson 
> <lwatson@tetralogical.com <mailto:lwatson@tetralogical.com>> wrote:
>
>     Heather,
>
>     As an advocate of user research myself, it's always good to meet
>     other
>     people who make it part of their activities too. Unfortunately I'm
>     not
>     sure I can suggest anything other than the tried and tested route of
>     looking up publicly available information about organisations and the
>     people who hold key roles within them though.
>
>
> OK. Seems like if the W3C is ramping up D&I activities it may make 
> sense to tap into that resource in your member orgs. And visa versa, 
> seems to me maybe those counterparts would find value to support the 
> new Ethics & Code of Conduct.
>
>     Is your work on the CCG diversity strategy available anywhere? I
>     would
>     be interested to learn more about it.
>
>
> Right now it's being incubated just among the CCG chairs. However once 
> the initial research is done (which includes baseline data collection 
> like number/gender/diversity/geo-location breakdown of call 
> attendance, participation, time spent talking, presenters etc), I will 
> do a call for volunteers/broader participation in the CCG. I'd be 
> happy to give an update here at that time, and would welcome broader 
> participation.
>
> To be clear, my focus is a D&I strategy to be successfully implemented 
> in the CCG, which includes baseline numbers, metric to hit and proven 
> successful strategies that can be executed with our limited volunteer 
> resources. I have no objection to sharing our learnings with others & 
> potentially helping implement this elsewhere, but I am not building 
> this with other requirements/communities in mind. Killing scope creep 
> before it can start, ya know. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Heather
>
>     Léonie.
>
>
>     On 25/07/2020 17:25, heather vescent wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > As I mentioned in my introduction a few weeks ago, I am actively
>     > researching diversity programs for the CCG Strategy on diversity
>     and
>     > inclusion. As part of my research I would like to interview
>     diversity &
>     > inclusion leaders at W3C member organizations.
>     >
>     > Where might I go about finding the people/departments for
>     > diversity/inclusion at W3C member organizations?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > -Heather
>     >
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