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ITS Workforce Diversity Award 2017
Posted by: ITS Canada
May 26th, 2017
2017 Award for Best Action for Supporting Diversity in the ITS Workforce
 
An Award will be made in connection with the ITS World Congress in Montreal 2017, for the best action taken to promote the creation of an ITS workforce which reflects the clients and users of the ITS being supplied and managed. Depending on your location and your organisation, this will involve addressing ratios of genders, ethnicities, ages, religious orientations, sexual orientations, etc.
 
The award is open to any organisation or individual anywhere in the world.
 
The submissions will be judged by an eminent panel of ITS professionals
representing the three regions of the ITS world:
  • Americas – Carol Schweiger, Schweiger Consulting Ltd, US and Lynne Randolph, Southwest Research Institute, US
  • Asia Pacific – Grace Ong, LTA, Singapore and Susan Harris, ITS Australia
  • Europe & Africa – Paul Vorster, ITS South Africa and Gideon Mbiydzenyuy, Netport, Sweden
Please send your idea in the form of a one-page Word document to
diversity@its-uk.org.uk not later than 30 September 2017. The document
should include metrics that your organisation has been tracking in terms of
its progress in promoting diversity.
 
Nominations are now welcome to mailbox@its-uk.org.uk
 
The closing date for nominations is 30 September 2017
 
Previous Winners:
  • 2016 – Transurban (Australia)
  • 2015 – Mouchel (UK)
 
Click here for more details.