Hi the outreach that was done this year has managed to get us from dismal numbers of female applicants (only 4 last year) to almost record numbers of female applicants (last I checked, there were OVER FOUR TIMES as many as last year) - that shows improvement, doesn't it? This year it's probably going to be the highest number and % of female applicants ever! Of course, it would probably help if we had a higher % of women in Internet tech areas, so we'd have a larger pool of qualified interested women to tap into, but somehow, I think that addressing the global gender imbalance in science, technology, engineering and IT is a bit outside ICANN's remit. BTW - in 2007 there were TWO ICANN meetings in NA (San Juan and LA) so I guess that's a valid reason for NA to skip a turn. Jacqueline A. Morris Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann ) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On 6 April 2011 09:54, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net>wrote:
I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
... and as a result, North Americans are horribly under-represented within ICANN....
Don't feel too unfairly dealt with, though. Outreach done at other regional meetings is just as miserable. ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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