Broadening participation and RESPECT
Tiffany M. Barnes, George K. Thiruvathukal · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 2015
In computing and STEM fields, broadening participation is both a matter of driving creativity and innovation and a matter of equity. It is critical that we, as the CS education community, improve inclusion of diverse people, especially those from underrepresented populations. Globally, underrepresentation differs regionally and culturally by gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic advantage, physical, mental, and cognitive ability, and LGBT status. Lest we think that this is a minority-only issue, consider developing countries or the poor of every nation, where computing could help build the economy, health, education, and financial systems.