Expanding Opportunities: Assessing and Addressing Geographic Diversity at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium
Brett A. Becker, Amber Settle, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Briana B. Morrison, Cary Laxer · 2021
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) is one of the oldest and largest SIGs, and the SIGCSE Technical Symposium is the oldest and largest of the four SIGCSE conferences. However, the vast majority of Symposium attendees and contributors are from the United States. Because SIGCSE is an international organization, this lack of geographic diversity and representation is troubling because it may stifle collaboration, membership, professional development, and dissemination of research, and have many other adverse effects.