Strengthening Community Engagement at TPAC 2025: looking back at the IE & inclusion Funds

The goal is to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing positively to the work of W3C groups, but who require financial support to be more actively involved.

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• Our criteria this time put the emphasis on established contributors, in particular editors, chairs and those participating in elected bodies.
• Prioritization continued unchanged: under-represented groups, to improve diversity of background, gender, experiences, expertise and skills.
• Of the 67 applications, 26 matched the eligibility criteria, passed our screening, and were approved by our selection committee, so we were able to allocate funding to 13 awardees …
• It was an initial success that we were able to fund almost 4 times as many awards as all previous 7 years combined!
• But the success did not stop there because the funds worked as intended and were a true enabling program.

Resumen

There was significant interest from applicants who were overall very diverse, with broad under-represented groups/region/gender representation 15 women, 9 men and 2 gender-diverse individuals.

Fuente: W3C