An ICT experience in Computer Women Role promotion: WikinformáticA! in Aragón: Promoting the use of Wiki tools and visualizing the role of women in ICT

Nowadays, the number of female students that enroll in technical (architectural and engineering) degrees is quite low. So, numerous initiatives have arisen to promote these degrees and encourage female students to develop activities related to technical areas. In particular, we have organized the contest called WikinformáticA! in Aragón. This contest was designed in order to achieve the following main goals: 1) encouraging female students to study degrees related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT), 2) disclosing the history of prominent women in the field of ICT in order to serve as role-model for new generations of female students, and 3) promoting collaborative work by means of Wiki tools and the use of search tools for images. In this paper, we describe in detail how the context was organized, its development, and the results obtained by the different teams that participated.