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Shashi
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Please introduce yourself to the rest of the community here. Tell us a bit about yourself and your projects.
My name is Shashi, I'll be managing the online community for this Prize Design. My background is in HR and Administration. I have been part of the Water Abundance and Women Safety XPRIZE's operation team and also Future of Housing and Future of Forest Impact Map research team. I have been community manager for Clean Air Prize Design.
If you have any community-related questions or need help, please don't hesitate to message here or email me at shashi.rai@xprize.org.
My name is Shashi, I'll be managing the online community for this Prize Design. My background is in HR and Administration. I have been part of the Water Abundance and Women Safety XPRIZE's operation team and also Future of Housing and Future of Forest Impact Map research team. I have been community manager for Clean Air Prize Design.
If you have any community-related questions or need help, please don't hesitate to message here or email me at shashi.rai@xprize.org.
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This is my fourth project with XPRIZE. Previously, I worked on the Rainforest Prize Design, Feeding the Next Billion Prize Design, and the Future of Work Prize Design.
If you have any questions about this design, please feel free to reach out to me on here, on LinkedIn, or via email at kathleen.hamrick@xprize.org!
Prior to joining XPRIZE, I worked in public finance and budgeting. I’m excited to hear your ideas on the Gender Data Gap!
Please feel free to message me here or by email at
karan.kalhan@xprize.org
My name is Dr. Andrea Rowe, and I am a researcher, author, and entrepreneur. My passion is creating a world that is better for everyone! I have written on gender equality and innovation in Canada, Sweden and the OECD. In my most recent position, I was the Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at an evidence-based consulting firm that specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I am looking forward to contributing to exchanging ideas and contributing to the development of the Gender Data Gap Prize.
Best regards, Andrea
https://community.xprize.org/categories/GDG-key-issues
We'll post more topics here over the coming weeks. We're excited to hear your insights!
Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions.
Our aim is to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public spaces for everyone especially women, through the use of crowdsourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability.
Since our launch on 26 Dec 2012 we have collected over 12,000 stories from over 50 cities in India and directly reached over 500,000 people.
You can check more about my organisation here and my personal site here.
My name is Ingmar Weber and I’m the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI).
In my research, I’m using non-traditional data sources such as social media advertising data or satellite imagery for things such as (i) mapping poverty, (ii) monitoring international migration, and (iii) tracking digital gender gaps. Some slide decks here.
Our work on digital gender gaps is supported by Data2X and is in collaboration with Ridhi Kashyap at the University of Oxford.
Have a look at our Digital Gender Gaps portal where we try to fill data gaps on internet access gender gaps. The science behind is described here.
I look forward to contributing to this community and to helping shape this challenge!
Best regards,
Ingmar
Short introduction: I'm Niels Spierings, Associate professor in gender and political sociology at Radboud University in the Netherlands. One of my interest is in gender inequality, statistical research and intersectionality. On this topic I provide the Dutch government with advice and I'm a member of the EIGE (EU Institute for gender equality) advisory board regarding the EIGE gender inequality index. I also publish on this academically, and as we speak I'm working on a chapter regarding intersectionality on quantitative research for a handbook on intersectionality.
At LTI, I am working with communities with low income backgrounds and helping them improve their earning potential, designing and building women entrepreneurship programs, enabling their children with access to better education and lastly, undertaking large climate action programs at an organizational level as well as promoting individual action through awareness.
Glad to be a part of this community and look forward to contributing.
Thanks!
Along with that, I am also involved in developing the curriculum and facilitation for training regarding gender and other civic issues.
Looking forward to working with all of you!
Thanks!
Thank you for inviting me! My name is Pavel Ovseiko. I am a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University leading a programme of research and policy advocacy on gender equity and diversity across medical and social sciences. You can read about it here: https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/pavel-ovseiko
I really look forward to working with on this important initiative!
Best wishes,
Pavel
We find ourselves part of a growing global movement seeking to end the online harms women and girls are facing in the internet, harms that tell them they are not equal and should not be getting too comfortable in public space, whether that be online sexual exploitation, misogynistic trolling, sextortion, sharing of non consensual sexual images (OF someone, or in the case of cyber flashing WITH someone without their consent), voyeurism, upskirting and distribution of hacked images. And forever frustrated by the AI systems (designed by humans) that repeat and exacerbate discrimination and biases.
We are advocating for more comprehensive laws that go beyond the intention to cause distress and the immediate and long-term physical and psychological harms of online abuse and acknowledge the more subtle and pervasive harms caused by an attack on a person’s fundamental rights to dignity and privacy, as well as their freedom of sexual expression and autonomy.
We are working with others on seeking legal solutions to the multi jurisdictional challenges of criminal justice in a world wide web, particularity to address online child sexual exploitation/abuse.
And finally, I want work with others to inform the design of balancing-algorithms to address the gender biases that exacerbate discrimination, feed misogyny and harm women and girls .
That came out as more like a manifesto than an intro., sorry about that !
I'm Przemyslaw Grabowicz, a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of EQUATE research group.
Modern decision-making systems often incorporate machine learning components. Various "fair" learning methods have been introduced for such contexts. Me and my collaborators evaluate the effectiveness of these "fair" training methods in inhibiting propagation of discrimination and propose a generic supervised learning method that is more effective in preventing discrimination than other approaches.
Thank you for inviting me to be a part of this community. I'm looking forward to discuss any aspects of fairness in machine learning systems!
Thanks,
Przemek.
My name is Munkhchimeg Davaasharav. I am a freelance journalist and journalism trainer, currently based in Atlanta, GA. I cover various topics including gender equality.
I am from Mongolia and was leading an Increasing Media Awareness on Gender-based Violence project with the UNFPA and Press Institute of Mongolia in my country. Also, with the Gender Equality Center of Mongolia, I have developed the editors' guidebook on Investigating Human Trafficking, Rape and Sexual Harassment, which was the first resource in local language for journalists.
I am also a co-founder of the Mongolian Center for Investigative Reporters and we have organized the country's first Data Journalism Hackathon 'Hack Inequality' in 2019 with the DW Akademie.
I am happy to be a part of this community and will try to contribute as I can.
Thanks,
Meg
Our most recent discussion topic can be found here, under Key Issues: https://community.xprize.org/discussion/667/gender-data-gaps-in-health#latest. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
I'm Gaëlle Ferant I'm leading the Gender programme at the OECD development centre. I'm happy to be part of this.
I am Selin Dilli, Assistant Professor of Economic History at Utrecht University. I work on developing new measures which captures the multidimensional nature of gender equality in the dimensions of health, politics, economics, and households comparable at a global level since 1820. I also research the diverse forms of female entrepreneurship in Europe and the role national policies play in stimulating them.
I am very happy to be a part of this initiative and look forward contributing to it.
I am Kathleen Beegle, a Lead Economist with the Gender Group of the World Bank. We work on addressing gender data gaps by improving the data landscape with regards to policy making, investments in national statistical systems in low/middle income countries, and exploring new/improved methods of data collection -- supported through various partnerships.