In the 21st century the number of students, both male and female, taking up IT courses and careers is still in decline. In Australia the numbers of students enrolling in ICT courses at universities has decreased by one-third in the last 7 years. More worrying is that the number of women attracted to our field has halved. We invite industry representatives, academics, researchers and students to come together to celebrate achievements and share initiatives or strategies to address this continued decline in popularity of IT in general.
The Australian Celebration of Women in ICT conference will be held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus on December 1, 2009. OzWIT has a mission of informing, sharing, community building, and re-energising those involved in the recruitment and retention of women in information technology.
Presentations, panels and papers* will be accepted around the themes of:
* papers will not be blind refereed.