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For Women and Girls:  Explore ICT Opportunities

This part of the Girls in ICT Portal contains links to scholarships, contests and awards, training and internships, online networks, tech camps, information about national Girls in ICT Day events and other initiatives to encourage and support women and girls to enter the ICT sector.  Please note that any questions you may have about any of the listed programs should be directed to the program provider.

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posted on:01/01/12
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This award recognizes teaching practices, techniques or innovative and new education approaches that attract girls and women to math, computing, and engineering.  The award recognizes the educators (either individuals or teams) as well as the practices in K12 or undergraduate education

posted on:18/06/12
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The AWDF Main Grants Programme is pan-African and supports local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment

Contact:

The African Women’s Development Fund
Plot Number 78, AWDF House
Ambassadorial Enclave
East Legon, Accra, Ghana

Ph. +233 (0) 302 521257/+233 (0) 302 923626/+233 (0) 302 28 722006

Email:grants@awdf.org, awdf@awdf.org

posted on:01/01/12

A*STAR strives to groom young and promising talent.  Awards are given to  local upper secondary and junior college students who demonstrate particularly strong aptitude and interest in math and science to spur their passion in scientific research and development.  Other awards and scholarships are given to undergraduates, graduates, and post graduate students

posted on:19/06/12
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All-Siberia Student Olympiad started in 1962 and was designed to attract more high school students into sciences.   Today winners of the olympiad not only get a chance to compete with other students, but also get accepted into elite summer math and physics school and subsequently into Novosibirsky State University. The subject areas include math, computer science, chemistry, biology and physics.

posted on:21/06/12
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AMORE-PACIFIC Awards and Fellowships.To honour women scientists and young female researchers.  Provision of awards and fellowships to increase the visibility of women scientists through publicizing their achievement.

The Korean Federation of Women's Science & Technology Associations (KOFWST) created the "AMOREPACIFIC Award for Outstanding Women in the Sciences," together with AMOREPACIFIC, to award women scientists with outstanding achievements in order to promote and develop scientific activities by women and make widely known their achievements, thereby encouraging future women scientists. This award, which is presented jointly by KOFWST and AMOREPACIFIC, amounts to a total of 75 million won. It has six categories - Grand Award(1 person), Science & Technology Award(2 persons), Young Scientist Award(2 persons), Science Promotion Award(1 person), Frontier Award(1 person), Most Promising Talent Award(2 persons) - and is presented to nine people. What is unique about the award is that its scope has been expanded to include application areas in addition to pure studies.

posted on:01/01/12
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The Change Agent Awards honor technical women that live and work outside the United States. They are change agents in their community – working to attract and support women in technology in their region

posted on:01/01/12
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ABI develops tools and a broad range of programs and awards designed to help industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women technology leaders.

posted on:01/01/12
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Anita Borg Social Impact Award, an international prize, will honor an individual or team who has caused technology to have a positive impact on the lives of women and society or who has caused women to have a significant impact on the design and use of technology

posted on:04/07/12

ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science is committed to encouraging and motivating female students to pursue tertiary studies in the engineering & computer science domain.

We offer a A$5000 scholarship for high-acheiving female undergraduate students on commencement of their degree. More information can be found here: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/future_students/undergraduate/scholarships

There are also a range of special scholarships offered for continuing female students and more information can be found here: https://cecs.anu.edu.au/current_students/scholarships

posted on:01/03/12

We are a global network of women who support women networking for social change and women’s empowerment, through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). We promote gender equality in the design, development, implementation, access to and use of ICTs and in the policy decisions and frameworks that regulate them.

Our programme members are specialists in areas such as training, information facilitation, technical work and policy issues. Many work on a voluntary basis and are mostly experienced network users rather than formally-trained ICT experts. We come from different backgrounds: among us are activists on issues such as housing, environmental protection and women’s health; librarians, journalists, web developers, trainers, technicians, and user support providers. Some of us work for Internet Service/Content Service Providers (ISP/CSP) that are members of the Association For Progressive Communications. Some are independent activists, and some are members of women’s organizations.