@conference {kamberidou2010eliminating, title = {{\textquoteright}Eliminating the glass celing and the leaky pipeline: the ECWT and the EUD- European Directory of Women and ICT{\textquoteright}. Presentation at the European Commission{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteright}Women in ICT-Shadowing{\textquoteright} conference}, booktitle = {European Commission{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteright}Women in ICT-Shadowing{\textquoteright} conference 7-9 March 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus}, year = {2010}, month = {8 March}, publisher = {European Commisson}, organization = {European Commisson}, address = {Nicosia, Cyprus}, abstract = {

Kamberidou, I.\ (2010).\ {\textquoteright}Eliminating the glass celing and the leaky pipeline: the ECWT and the EUD- European Directory of Women and ICT{\textquoteright}. Presentation at the European Commission{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteright}Women in ICT-Shadowing{\textquoteright} conference, the Way Forward, \ 7-9 March 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus. European Commisson.\ 
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The purpose of this presentation is to promote the targets of the European Center for Women and Technology (ECWT), namely\  to increase the number of girls and women in the knowledge based economy until the year 2015. To Accomplish this the ECWT\  has developed the European Directory (EUD)\  of Women and ICT (http:// www.ictwomendirectory.eu) an online directory, an ecospace {\textendash} endorsed by the e-skills ILB as the meeting point for ICT women in Europe. The ultimate aim of these initiatives is to encourage young women to choose to study and work in the sector and to ensure their participation in the use, design and production of information and communication technologies and services.\  This paper discusses the ECWT thematic-focus \ areas{\textemdash}Education, Workforce, Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Additionally it presents a list of what the ECWT accomplished in 2009: increasing member organizations from 16 to 52; ECWT national point of Contacts (N-POCs) under start-up in 21 countries; discussions with HePIS- the Hellenic Professionals Informatics Society and members of CEPIS-to set up a National Point of Contact in Greece; trengthening collaboration with DG INFSO through signing of the Code of Best Practices of Women in ICT and DG Enterprise and Industry, opening a dialog with DG Research and DG Education, to name few.

}, author = {Irene Kamberidou} }