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Gergana Petrova is the Community Development Manager at RIPE NCC. She helps lead the RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, academia, civil society and other Internet stakeholders. Gergana has been working for the RIPE NCC since 2013. Originally from Bulgaria, Gergana studied in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands. Gergana has a Masters in Business Research.
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The 13th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) runs from 12-14 November 2018 in Paris. The RIPE NCC staff at the event will be liveblogging key moments and session take-aways. Check back on this page for regular updates on the issues, arguments and ideas from RIPE NCC staff and RIPE…
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The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is an annual conference focusing on Internet measurement and analysis. The 17th edition is taking place from 31 October to 2 November 2018 in Boston. RIPE NCC staff at the event will be live blogging key moments. See this page for regular updates on the iss…
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The RIPE NCC is liveblogging from the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) from 4-6 June. Check back for updates!
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The 101st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) runs from 17 - 23 March 2018 in London. RIPE NCC staff at the event will be live blogging key moments. See this page for regular updates on the issues, arguments and ideas discussed over the course of the meeting.
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Over the past 18 months, the RIPE NCC has been actively following a strategy of strengthening and formalising our relationships with various parties by signing Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with them. What has been the effect of these agreements? Read on to find out.
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EuroSSIG 2016, held in Meissen, Germany from 16-23 July, gathered 30 fellows and 30 faculty members together for an intensive week-long introduction to the topic of Internet governance. This was also the year it celebrated its 10th anniversary. The RIPE NCC, which is one of many sponsors, sent two …
“Deliberate change requires setting goals, working towards them and checking progress. So what diversity goals should we set ourselves. In gender diversity the popular/simplistic goal has been to reflect world population: classical 50/50 or contemporary with more categories. Shane also voices this in the podcast. But is this the right benchmark? Shouldn't we set goals based on the diversity of groups that are closer to our community? I have seen some organisations setting diversity goals based on current ratios: "We will double the percentage of female graduates in five years time." Others base their goals on statistics of a larger population they serve: "We will have double the percentage of female graduates compared with the average of similar programs in Europe." I strongly believe we should set ourselves realistic goals. I also believe that diversity has other parameters than gender and that our efforts on gender diversity should not lead to a loss of other diversity we have already achieved.”
Hi Daniel. I agree that we should set goals. Among CS graduates, women make up roughly 35% in the RIPE NCC's service region (there is huge variation country to country), while among IT professionals the figure drops to 25%. Shane shows that at RIPE meetings women are about 17%. So I think there is room for improvement and a more realistic target would be 30% among participants, and 25% among speakers (as opposed to 50/50).
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