High School offering innovative science programmes.

The Association of South African Women in Science and Engineering (SA WISE) is a dynamic association for all those who support the idea of strengthening the role of women in science and engineering in South Africa.

SA WISE aims to strengthen this role by inter alia:

• raising the profile of women scientists and engineers
• highlighting and addressing problems faced specifically by women in these fields
• lobbying for the advancement of women in science and engineering
• providing leadership and role models for young people wishing to enter the fields of science and engineering

An important function of SA WISE is to improve communication among women scientists and engineers, with e-mail being the preferred medium of communication. Members are encouraged to send ideas and information to SA WISE. SA WISE also maintains contact with other assocations of women in science and engineering world-wide

Telecentre Women Digital Literacy Campaign Contest: Help us achieve the goal of training 1 million women by the year-end 2012.

Calling all partners! Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are hosting a contest (“Contest”) to award ICT equipment to the telecentre that trains the most  number of women to become digitally literate.

This Contest is in support of the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign (the “Campaign”) (http://women.telecentre.org) under the Cooperation Agreement signed by TCF and ITU.

Since the Campaign was launched, you have already succeeded in training nearly one quarter of a million women to become digitally literate.  This Contest is designed to achieve our goal of training 1 million women by year end—both  ensuring that all women who were trained have been fully reported and to encourage telecentres to continue their training efforts.

All partners of the TCW Campaign are invited to submit to TCF verifiable reports of the digital literacy trainings they’ve conducted for women up through 1 September 2012. TCF will be responsible for tallying and verifying the reports and submit the final results to ITU for purposes of awarding the ICT equipment.  ITU will award the telecentre that succeeds in training the most number of women under the Campaign ICT equipment for their telecentre worth 15,000 Swiss Francs.

Mechanics of the Contest:
• The Contest is open to telecentres in the Campaign. Telecentre networks are excluded from this contest.
• Only Campaign partners who are also members of the telecentre.org community can participate in the Contest.  To become an official Campaign partner, a telecentre must complete the Campaign Reply Form available for download at the Campaign website. To become a member of the telecentre.org community, the partner must sign up for membership in any of TCF’s community sites no later than September 1  (Note: Membership is free but subject to approval by TCF management).

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) is a computer user group based in Trinidad. Formed in 1997, we are a forum where computers, related technologies and related social issues are discussed.

Keep current with the events in the local Information Technology (IT) and telecommunications industries.  “Network local computer users” so that they can share knowledge and improve upon their experiences with modern technology.

Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. Our main role will be along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone toward the larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all.

Computer science is the study of the theoretical and practical aspects of computer technology and computer usage. The department offers courses on a wide range of topics, many of which include a mathematical component. UC Santa Cruz offers both the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees, as well as the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees, in computer science. Besides offering instructional courses, the Computer Science Department engages in a substantial research program in which both advanced undergraduates and graduate students participate.

Contact:

http://www.ucsc.edu/about/address.html

It is a unique week-long program held at the University of Waterloo (UW) and the University of Calgary every June. The program is designed to ignite enthusiasm for computer science in interested grade 9 and 10 female students from across Canada. Through lectures, labs, and hands-on activities, the seminar explores the foundations and applications of computer science that have a profound effect on the world today.

University of Colombo created an “External Degree Program” resulting in a Bachelor of Information Technology.  While university staff members conduct the examinations, the program is linked with research facilities and private sector training institutions, who together, design the curriculum and provide the actual instruction.  The program aims to produce 3,000 graduates in the next three years, 100 times the capacity that the university alone could have produced.

The BS degree program in Computer Science is designed to prepare students for careers as computer specialists and for graduate study in computer science. It culminates in a course in which students carry out year-long software engineering projects for industry. This degree emphasizes knowledge and awareness of computing at all levels, from circuits and computer architecture through operating systems and programming languages to large application systems; the theoretical and mathematical aspects of computing; the interdependence of hardware and software; and the challenge of large-scale software production and the engineering principles used to meet that challenge.

Contact:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/people/lesley_mcdowell.html

The Master of Science degree permits graduate students the flexibility in defining specialized interdisciplinary fields that meet their professional needs. It is also available to undergraduate Computer Science majors through the Concurrent BS/MS Degree Program.

Contact:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/people/jackie_deboard.html