Hardware, Software Womenware Women in the Engineering

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Hardware, Software WomenwareWomen in the
Engineering Technology Workforce

• Presenter Dana Winner
• Executive Director
• IMTAS, International Systems Division
• Partner Country Director Kuwait Iraq,
• International Knowledge Management Institute

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Hardware, Software Womenware Agenda

• Evaluate
• Quick look at history of women in digital
  technology
• Personal influences that led me to the digital
  workforce
• Progress
• What special talents do women bring to
  Engineering and Technology workforce?
• How to enter the technical workforce

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Hardware, Software Womenware Agenda
celebrate

• Evaluate
• Quick look at history of women in digital
  technology
• Personal influences that led me to the digital
  workforce
• Progress
• What special talents do women bring to
  Engineering and Technology workforce?
• How to enter the workforce

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Hardware, Software Womenware Agenda
celebrate

• Evaluate
• Quick look at history of women in digital
  technology
• Personal influences that led me to the digital
  workforce
• Progress
• What special talents do women bring to
  Engineering and Technology workforce?
• How to enter the workforce

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Evaluate Quick history of digital women

• Women Pioneers in digital technology
• Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)
• Edith Clarke (1883-1959)
• Rósa Péter (1905-1977)
• Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
• Alexandra Illmer Forsythe (1918-1980)
• Evelyn Boyd Granville
• Margaret R. Fox
• Erna Schneider Hoover
• Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli
• Alice Burks
• Adele Goldstine
• Joan Margaret Winters
• Ref http//www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-c
  s.html

Ada
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US Navy KM affecting me personally

• My Personal Childhood Computing (S)hero
• Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
• Co-inventor of the MARK I Computer
• Advanced Programming Language (APL)
• COBOL team member

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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper 1906-1992

• "It's better to ask forgiveness than it is to get
  permission."

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US Navy KM affecting me personally

• Rear Admiral Janice Hamby continues Rear Adm.
  Hoppers legacy today as a Leader in IT
  Knowledge Management

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Digital Technology Women Leaders Past Present
Admiral Hamby
Admiral Hopper
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Madame Curie

• At the Sorbonne, 1st in science and second in
  mathematics in a class of 2000 students Found
  work studying the magnetic properties of various
  steels
• Needed instruction in a devicethe quadrant
  electrometerthat had been perfected by a young
  physicist named Pierre Curie
• Explored the newly discovered science of
  radioactivity (a word she coined)
• Marie and Pierre isolated two new elements
  polonium and radium
• 1903 Nobel Prize in physics for Marie and Pierre
  and later a 2nd Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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My dad opened the computer world for me by
taking me to work with him at
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at the Pentagon
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Pentagon computer room 1962The 1st IBM 7090
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Pentagon computer room 1962The 1st IBM 7090
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Pentagon computer room 1962The 1st IBM 7090
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IBM 7090
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December 1962 My first computer
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Professional Music Career begins
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September 1972 British Computers Ltd.
Hippie hair Mini Skirt Thigh-high High-heeled
boots

• BCL Modular 18
• Mini computer
• Console toggle switches
• 18k of memory
• 8 bit machine
• Octal coding
• No Operating System
• No Assembler
• Programming overlays to disk

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Financial Times Accounts Receivable using
Electronic Display
132 column line printer
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Communications technology

• Relationship between Music Computer Programming
  - both are
• Coding systems
• Western music and the early 8-bit machines were
  both based on octal code
• Information delivery systems

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Content Follows Form
Design
Art
tools materials
Knowledge
values
Tech
Engineering
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1960-70s Digital Technology Business Model
Elite Workforce of Men Women working together
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Mens Creation of the Tech World

• Men's creation of the technological world of
  today has made me (us!) possible.

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My mom

• Read to me daily
• Sacrificed to send me to Kindergarten
• Told me to be a reader like my dad.
• Demonstrated using mens tools productivity and
  hard work.

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35 years Knowledge, Information Communications
Delivery

• Singer/songwriter, Recording artist
• 5 albums
• Radio TV
• gt1000 live concerts
• Major venues such as Grand Ole Opry
• Etc

• ICT professional
• Programmer
• Analyst/Designer
• Systems Engineer
• IT Project Mgmt
• BPR
• eGov
• eHealth
• Etc

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Middle East IT

• 1994 UNDP Consultant to the Kuwait government
  to implement ICT systems supporting
  Democratization of the Government early
  eGovernment
• 1st project for Kuwait MoCI to implement a
  prototype of a Client Services Call Center
• 2nd project for Kuwait CMGS a Decision Support
  prototype with Ali Shuraidah Director of Kuwait
  eGov today

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Salwa Badr Systems Engineer

• B.A English Literature, Kuwait University, 1980,
  Kuwait
• 27 years in IT Systems Development and
  Implementation
• Specializing in Government Enterprise Systems
  using IBM technology
• Migration of major VSAM files systems to
  Relational Database structure
• Excels in the interface between organizational
  (human) needs and technology

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Haya Al-Ghanim Hanya Al-DukairManaging Partners

• 20 years IT business
• Computer Data Networks ( CDN )
• Kuwaiti based
• ISO 9001-2000 company established to provide
• professional services in the fields of
  Information Technology Communications. CDN
  functions in two basic ways as a
• Turnkey vendor or
• Designer and supplier of high speed local and
  wide area networks, Internet Intranet Systems,
  computers, peripherals and IT professionals
• gt800 customer installations in
• Kuwait,
• U.A.E.,
• Oman,
• Qatar
• Bahrain

JMT Al-Ghanim Authorized Partner of Oracle in
Kuwait
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Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Sharjah Royal Family

• 1981 programmer for software company Datamation
• Dubai branch manager for the United Arab
  Emirates, General Information Authority
• Sr. Manager of Dubai Ports Authority (DPA),
  Information Systems department
• 1999 Distinguished Government Employee Award
• 2000 Chief Executive of Tejari, the first Middle
  Eastern Business-to-Business Marketplace.
• Tejari has won the awards for the World Summit
  for Information Societys "Best e-Content
  Provider in e-Business" (Geneva)
• UAE Super Brands Council "Super Brand of 2003"

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Ms. Carolyn G. Morris, President

• M.S. Mathematics, Harvard University
• 40 years of successful award-winning experience
  in managing large, complex Information Technology
  projects
• Prior to joining IMTAS, Ms. Morris led major IT
  initiatives for the U.S. Department of Defense
  (DOD) for 15 years.
• U.S. Armys PACE Award
• Developed and implemented a worldwide DOD Medical
  Information System
• Assistant Director of the Information Resources
  Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  (FBI)
• Implemented National Crime Information Center
  2000 (NCIC 2000) system
• Managed over 1500 FBI employees, provided
• Oversight for a 300 Million Budget
• Supervised technical support for all major FBI
  cases such as the UNIBOMBER, the Atlanta
  Bombings, and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
• Presidential Distinguished Executive Award
• Presidential Meritorious Executive Award

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Progress

• The development and integration of Information
  and Communications Technology into the US
  culture over the past 50 years of my lifetime has
  been one of the greatest stories of sustainable
  development that the world has ever seen and I
  have been privileged to be involved thru my
  father since the 50s and as a field worker since
  1972.

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The female brain

• Larger Corpus Colossum connecting left and right
  brain
• Larger Anterior Cingulate Cortex Makes Decisions
• Larger Prefontal Cortext Controls emotions
  controls amygdala which is larger in men

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What is Womenware?

• The female brain bridges between social needs and
  technical tools, materials and methodologies
• System Requirements specification
• Design Harmonize Human Requirements Technical
  Tools
• Data Modeling
• User Interface Design
• Testing based on the Requirements Specification
• Training Education

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My favorite techie joke The IT Manager
says, You start coding and I will go and see
what they need
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He who has a hammer
sees everything as a nail!
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Womenware Knowledgeware

• Woman bring exceptional capability in Knowledge
  Management which is a cross-disciplinary approach
  spanning
• Strategic Planning
• Human Resource Management
• Professional Development
• Quality/Performance Measurement
• Information Technology Systems Management

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Who should be the Chief Knowledge Officer?
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Rear Admiral Janice Hamby is a US Navy
Knowledge Manager
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Who is the bestChief Knowledge Officer (CKO)?

• The next three slides come from the International
  Knowledge Management Institute blended learning
  Certification in Knowledge Management (eCKMTM)
  course.

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KM Leadership Role
Sponsor development of KM strategy, architect,
methodologies, and processes (KMBOKTM) ID
opportunities via KM to increase revenue,
decrease costs Collaborate with HR to develop
conditions motivating K contribution/sharing Coll
aborate with IT to ID/deploy KM tools to meet
business objectives Propose metrics that enable
measurement of leveraging Intellectual
Capital Learn from other organizations Sponsor
change required for success
Source British Standards Institute, 2001
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CKO Leadership Values

• feminine
• collaborate
• network, alliances
• interdependent
• adapt, flexibility
• understanding
• relationships
• learning

• masculine
• compete
• hierarchies, rules
• independent
• firm, unyielding
• single-minded
• tough
• achievement

Both needed, depending on the situation. Dr.
Norman Chorn, Management Nov 95
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• Human Resources - Training Director
• Strengths - Learning, people orientation. Some
  performance support
• Weaknesses - Lacks process orientation,
  management/justification of major projects,
  technology, Training Director has not had
  visibility
• Information Technology - Chief Information
  Officer (CIO)
• Strengths - Technology, some process orientation,
  management/ justification of major projects, CIO
  has had visibility
• Weaknesses - Lacks focus on learning, people
• Who will be CKO?
• Training Director - Needs much more business
  orientation
• CIO - Needs much more people/cultural
  orientation, not typical of tech
• Consultant - If mix of both technology change
  mgmt., especially transformation (BPR, change
  management), but not an insider

Managers who combine technical, business, and
social skills ... winners in the
KM career game. KMagazine 9/99
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