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The 1st Annual General Meeting of the European Centre for Women and Technology was held the 9th of October 2009 in Brussels. The ECWT that was set up during summer 2008 with 16 members has a bit more than a year later 44 member organizations and some individual members. 21 were represented at the AGM.
Members of the ECWT were pleased to note the quick and substantial increase of the number of members and voted for some modifications of the statutes to reflect this positive development of the organization. Some of the key decisions taken include:
- Adoption of a Code of Conduct to regulate key issues in regard to tendering, sponsorship and communication
- Membership for both organizations and individuals
- Membership fee based on stakeholder background
- Increasing the Executive group from 5 to 7
- Compensation to the Executive group members depending on the annual actionplan and budget approved by the AGM
- Confirming on-line member participation as a basic membership requirement to strengthen the ECWT as a virtual mega-community
The Executive group that has lead the ECWT in the first 15 months was confirmed and extended. The leadership of the European Centre for Women and Technology for the next two years:
- Dr. Rosalie Zobel - Chair of the High-level Advisory Committee
- Eva Fabry, Director of the ECWT, Norway
Members of the Executive Group:
- Sasha Bezuhanova, Hewlett Packard, Director for the Public Sector CEE, Bulgaria
- Bev Hurley. YTKO & Enterprising Women, United Kingdom
- Alexa Joyce. Senior Communications & Business Development Manager
of the European Schoolnet, Belgium
- Malgorzata Kalinowszka-Iszkowszka. Vice President of CEPIS and Chair of the Polish Information Processing Society. Poland
- Petra Püchner, Dr. Director Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany
- Maria Sangiuliano, Risorse Donne, Provincia di Venezia, Italy
The Election Committee for the AGM to be held prel. in March 2011
- Myriam Diocaretz, Socrates Professor, Special Chair in Humanism and Digital Society at the Maastricht ICT Competence Centre (MICC), Maastricht University, Secretary of the European Writers Association, MDD Consultancy, The Netherlands & Belgium - Chair of the Election Committee
- Caterina Berbenni Rehm, Director of PROMIS Srl, Luxembourg
- Irene Kamberidou, Assistant Professor of the University of Athens, Greece
- Clementina Marinoni, Head of HR Project Development, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Maria Palasik, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Economics, Sciences and Innovation Budapest and Chair WITEC Hungary
- Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director of Equalitec and Portia, the UK
The event was hosted and sponsored by the European Commission DG INFSO.
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