International context Re: IDCG ideas for consideration for building an action plan

There are a couple of things I think are important to consider in an
international context.

One is the way we discuss what americans call "race" - a term that I find
particularly jarring as anything other than a weird historical idea, even
while I recognise "racism" as an accurate term to describe a problem that
hasn't gone away and needs to be addressed.

Another is that while we do a poor job of including even many of the
groups that make up US society, we do an equally bad job at working with
much of the world *at all*. Long-term participants from Central or South
America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the middle East, Central or South East
Asia, and the Pacific are so few in number I could probably name them all  
with a bit of effort.

There are a number of structural barriers that contribute to this, some of
which are entirely up to us and some of which we can work to mitigate.

I am very interested in following up on this issue in the IDCG, and in
looking at how we can use the diversity funds to help mitigate some of
these barriers better than we have done until now.

cheers

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:17:43 +1000, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:

>   It may seem hard at first to figure out what W3C can do for an
>      action plan given ... Here are
>      some possible ideas to brainstorm on, mostly phrased as questions.
>      I'd welcome discussion on these on the IDCG list,
>
...
>
>   8. International context: Anti-black racism is an
>      issue in many countries especially at this moment, and needs
>      focused attention. But we should probably also continue to work on
>      how this fits within braoder diversity issues that that W3C has
>      worked on worldwide.


-- 
Charles "chaals" Nevile
PegaSys Standards Architect, ConsenSys

Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2020 04:01:03 UTC