Expression and empowerment through creative, digital enterprise

DigitalMuse.org, an initiative of Zen Digital Europe, is a global collaborative network stimulating girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and improving their digital skills through creative enterprises such as music & DJ-ing, design & visual arts, video games & software programming, and TV, film & audio production.

At DigitalMuse.org, girls interact directly with role model artists and practitioners from creative sectors and learn practical skills they can use in their daily lives. This way they are also empowered to express their own stories through digital and entertainment media.

The DigitalMuse.org network connects girls of all ages around the world, giving them ways to share their stories in order to improve the quantity and quality of stories told about girls and women in media, worldwide.

DIGITEST, an initiative of Digital Peers International is a children and youth empowerment program aimed at bridging the digital divide. DIGITEST is an annual IT based summer creative camp and competition for children and youth ages 8 - 18 years  where they are taught to develop content for the internet, learn and work with various software covering desktop publishing, web design, animation amongst others. Emphasis is also placed on the development of quality youth leadership, promotion of role models and inculcating values in children.

The Objectives of DIGITEST are as follows:

1. To generate and develop ICT capabilities in children and young people
2. To promote knowledge based summer camping for children and youth
3. To refocus youthful energies to gainful activities

Now in its 13th edition, DIGITEST has grown to become the largest IT camp for children in Africa, attracting an average of 300 - 400 children on an annual basis.

DIGITEST 2012 is scheduled to be held in Abuja, Nigeria from August 5 - 16, 2012

Django Girls is a non-profit organization that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. Each Django Girls event is a free, one-day workshop for 30-60 people about building your first application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django. A typical workshop takes 8 hours and people work in small, 3-person groups with a coach dedicated to each group.

The core belief of the the group is that technology is for people and everyone should be able to use and build it.

The workshops organized take place all over the world from Rio de Janeiro, Tunis, Austin, Brlin to Geneve. Don't forget to sign up for the upcoming events. The attendance is completely free of charge.

You can find more information on the link below.

Django Girls is a non-profit organization that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. It was born in July 2014 in Berlin and started by two Olas: Sitarska and Sendecka. Today, Django Girls is a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more women to Python & Django community. Each Django Girls event is a free, one-day workshop for 30-60 people about building your first application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django. A typical workshop takes 8 hours and people work in small, 3-person groups with a coach dedicated to each group.

Donne e Technologie is a women's technology network that holds conferences, the technovisionaire annual competition for women, and projects to help young people get involved in STEM.

The Dot Diva / New Image for Computing (NIC) initiative is sponsored by WGBH, one of the oldest and most accomplished producers of public media, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.

Dot Diva's mission is to create an exciting and positive image of computing for high school girls. Our nationwide survey revealed that not only do the majority of girls think of computing as "boring" and "hard," but they believe it fails to deliver two crucial benefits: "working with others" and "making a difference in other people's lives." Our ultimate goal is to transform this negative perception.
 

Extensive program designed to encourage pre-college and college women to study math, science, and engineering.

Douglas Project Program

Committed to helping woman who are interested in science, technology, engeneering and math (STEM) field to excell and reach their goals. 

Dream-wings is a free online learning portal run by Gyeonggi Women’s Development Center – GWDC (www.womenpro.or.kr). It offers e-learning services and over 300 courses in office work, healthcare, social welfare, IT, foreign languages and hobbies. Dream wings-supports women’s career development, including finding a job or starting a new business. It started off in 2004 as a local website built for women living in Gyeonggi Province. Based on the research conducted by Samsung SDS, GWDC created a master plan offering e-learning services to women who have experienced an extensive period of career breaks. A year later, GWDC opened the online Gyeonggi Women Career Development Center, Korea’s first-ever free e-learning service for women. It began to offer nation-wide services in 2011. This year, GWDC introduced a mobile version of the portal – Smart Dream-wings. Focused primarily on IT education, Dream-wings has expanded the scope of its services into total career development support by adding diagnostic services (e.g. competency diagnosis and employability diagnosis) and support for job placement and business start-up. The initiative is fully funded by the government.

E-School for Girls is a two-week summer intensive program at NYU designed to empower young women to become confident leaders and entrepreneurs. The program covers personal skills, as well as professional and business development in a collaborative pre-college environment where students engage with successful entrepreneurs, college professors, corporate leaders, and each other all while developing their entrepreneurial mindset as we take them through the entrepreneurs' business model framework and bring them to a variety of innovative business environments.

The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is a European multi-stakeholder partnership representing high-level expertise in women and technology development from government, business, academia and non-profit sectors supporting regional innovation through leveraging resources, research, best practices and services.

The European Centre for Women and Technology is a European non-profit organization registered under Norwegian law.

ECWT functions as the European Regional Point of Contact, the first of Ten Regional Centers planned to be established around the world, together constituting Global Women and Technology (GWT).

What's in it for me?
- Join the largest European community on women and technology
- Be a public member
- Be a business member
- Be an academia member

Join the ECWT as a member, if you want to or are working in the Women and Technology area  in the field of:
• Education
• Workforce
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• Research
• Innovation
To read more about our organization and to register click here.

Le programme de bourses d'excellence Eiffel, lancé en janvier 1999 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, est destiné à soutenir l'action de recrutement à l'international des établissements d'enseignement supérieur français, dans un contexte de concurrence accrue entre pays développés pour attirer l'élite des étudiants étrangers dans des formations de niveau Master, Ingénieur ou Doctorat.

Eko-Konnect is a cluster of the Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN). Its aims to support network connectivity and collaboration between education and research organisations in the Lagos area as part of wider efforts to establish a functional and sustainable National Research and Education Network (NREN).

It was established in December 2009 in an initiative led by the University of Lagos to exploit the geographical proximity to sea cables and telecommunication companies to secure high speed and affordable Internet connectivity for the research and education community.

Eko-Konnect has as it's objectives:

- Connecting participating institutions in a high speed network suitable for academic activity.
- Good inter-operability between research organizations and higher education networks that enable secure anytime, anywhere access by students, teachers and researchers.
- Fostering of collaborative research in network technology and the development of internet resources, training, and usergroups amongst participating institutions.
- Collaboration with other stakeholders to establish the national Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN) and regional West and Central African network (WACREN).

Eko-Konnect is registered in Nigeria as a non-profit association to further these aims and objectives.

Programs:
- ATI. The “Africa Training Initiative” is a 4-stage sustainable program developed jointly by Eko-Konnect and TeamCymru, a US-based Internet Security and Research Organisation, to help the Internet community in Africa meet this challenge through:
   - Training and Education
   - Collaboration and Intelligence building through data sharing, research and industry networking
   - Development and deployment of operational practices
   - Development of relevant support and facilitating bodies – CERTS, NOGs, etc.

- EkaLib. Eko-Konnect KohaAutomated Libraries (EkaLib) is a collaborative project for libraries dedicated to creating a shared catalog and an integrated system for libraries using Koha, the free and open source software library automation package.

- Eko-Geeks are students from various disciplines of the member institutions of Eko-Konnect. The group seeks to empower its members with technological knowhow irrespective of discipline and is focused on spreading the use, development and deployment of open source tools and services in their various institutions of learning.

- Girls in ICT is a program to equip girls and young women for a career in ICT. It aims to encourage girls to actively participate in ICT careers and provide opportunity for girls to learn the fundamental skills they need to be competitive in an increasingly technological world. Through specially tailored activities, the program will help young women think outside the box in the use and production of technology.

- ng-Mobicon is a series of activities related to mobile application and usage that will lead to the following program outputs:

   1.A comprehensive report on the use of mobile applications in Nigeria
   2.A capacity building workshop on Android mobile development for Eko-Konnect students
   3.Participatory design sessions with civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations with a view to understanding the requirements for their mobile applications.
   4.Development of 5 mobile applications that can impact areas of social change, citizen engagement, youth and gender rights and education in Nigeria.
   5.Develop Mobile Software Innovation Labs on Eko-Konnect campuses beginning with University of Lagos.

2015 TechWomen Eligibility Requirements

An applicant must:

• Be a woman with a minimum of two years of full-time professional experience in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields and/or a career requiring significant expertise/knowledge/application of technology;
• Have a university degree;
• Be proficient in written and spoken English;
• Demonstrate a willingness to participate in exchange programs, welcome opportunities for mentoring and new partnership development, and exhibit confidence and maturity;
• Be citizens or permanent residents of Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia, Yemen or Zimbabwe at the time of application, and while participating in the program;
• Not have applied for an immigrant visa to the United States, or participated in a visa lottery in the past five years;
• Be able to obtain a U.S. visa;
• Not hold U.S. Citizenship or be a U.S. legal permanent resident.

Preference will be given to applicants who:

• Have demonstrated themselves as emerging leaders in STEM fields;
• Have limited or no prior experience in the United States;
• Have a record of voluntary or public service in their communities;
• Have demonstrated entrepreneurialism and commitment to innovation.

Application deadline: February 10, 2015

The EngineerGirl website is a service of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).  It grew out of the work of the Committee on the Diversity of the Engineering Workforce, and was launched in February of 2001. The EngineerGirl website is part of an NAE project to bring national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to all people at any age, but particularly to women and girls.

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