Re: Diversity & Inclusion Leaders at W3C Member Organizations

Hi Judy,

Sure, would be happy to chat. I am aware of web accessibility issues from
my PM career in SV to enable the technology to be accessible to all
regardless of disability. Is this your area of focus or is it something
else?

Cheers,

-Heather

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:05 AM Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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> Heather Vescent <http://www.heathervescent.com/>
> President, The Purple Tornado, Inc <https://thepurpletornado.com/>
> ~ The Future in Present Tense ~
> Co-Chair, Credentials Community Group @W3C
> <https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/>
> Author, The Secret of Spies (Available Oct 2020)
> Author, A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity
> <https://ssiscoop.com/>
> Author, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual <http://amzn.to/2i2Jz5K>
>
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>

-- 
Heather Vescent <http://www.heathervescent.com/>
President, The Purple Tornado, Inc <https://thepurpletornado.com/>
~ The Future in Present Tense ~
Co-Chair, Credentials Community Group @W3C
<https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/>
Author, The Secret of Spies (Available Oct 2020)
Author, A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity
<https://ssiscoop.com/>
Author, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual <http://amzn.to/2i2Jz5K>

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