AWIS champions the interests of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across all disciplines and employment sectors.
Working for positive system transformation, AWIS strives to ensure that all women in these fields can achieve their full potential.

the AWIS Educational and Professional Development Awards has been substantially revised recently to focus on assisting early-career women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine with professional development.  These awards are provided to women who have already received their PhDs and funds may be used to attend a conference, acquire specialized training, or pursue professional development.
 

Through its branches and executive, the AWE, works actively to further the participation of women and girls in education, through networking, research, conferences, Seminars, and curriculum/policy watch among others.

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women’s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.

WOUGNET’s mission is to promote and support the use of ICTs by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development. The new ICTs, in particular, email and the Internet facilitate communication with each other and the international community. Indeed, access to information about best practices, appropriate technologies, ideas and problems of other groups working on similar concerns have been identified as critical information and communication needs of women organisations in Africa.

While our emphasis is directed towards Internet technologies, we are also interested in how these technologies can be integrated with traditional means of information exchange and dissemination including radio, video, television and print media. Our goal is to improve conditions of life for women by enhancing their capacities and opportunities for exchange, collaboration and information sharing.

WOUGNET activities are carried out under three major program areas:

• Information Sharing and Networking
• Technical Support
• Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy

Contact:

Susan Mubbala, Program Manager
Margaret Kasiko, Sec General - (077)436378

Each year AWT grants a minimum of one award to a Southern California college student. Scholarship winner(s) will be selected from among the qualifying applicants who submit their applications by the June 30th deadline.

As part of a long-standing commitment to higher education in science and technology, AT&T Labs offers two programs to graduate students: summer internships and three-year (ALFP) fellowships.

Long committed to higher education in science and technology, AT&T Labs - Research offers summer internships to graduate students with an interest and experience on working on research problems. Click here for research areas.

Each summer, research interns from universities all over the US come to AT&T Labs Research for 10 weeks to work with technical staff members on research projects, presenting talks of their work at the end of summer. Learn about one intern's summer experience in Inside the Labs: A Summer Intern Making A Difference.

Applicants for summer internship may be members of an existing university collaboration or may apply as individuals. Candidates are typically graduate students but advanced undergraduates will also be considered in exceptional cases. All other applicants or anyone interested in learning more about other internships with AT&T, visit the AT&T corporate employment pages (www.att.jobs).

Housing can be arranged for students at nearby universities according to the universities’ summer schedules (typically first week of June to mid August). Students may also arrange their own accommodations, usually by renting a room in a local home. (Opportunities for short-term apartment rentals may be limited.) Summer interns pay for their own housing; however, AT&T Labs covers the costs for travel within the United States

Internship eligibility qualifications:

• Currently enrolled, or planning to enroll, in a graduate school program leading to a PhD.
• Major field must be in computer science, math, statistics, electrical engineering, operations research, systems engineering, industrial engineering, or related fields.
• Students must have a US social security number. US citizenship or residency is NOT a requirement.

Various scholarships are available to AUT students, see the website for more details

At national, state and regional levels, the ACS commits to create and support initiatives that encourage the entry, development and retention of women in ICT professions generally and within the ACS.  Provides scholarship and career & job information/links.

AWISE is a national communications umbrella that forms a collaborative voice connecting Technology Networks for Women. The AWISE Goals are: Help individual networks achieve their goals faster, better and cheaper; National single point of contact; Encourage more females into technology based industries; share information and initiatives; Centralized national body to influence government and media and Obtain national funding to support agreed initiatives.

A national communications umbrella that forms a collaborative voice connecting Technology Networks for Women.  Provides links to events,

Student Contest in sciences, math and computer science. Over 40 judges from academia and leading research institutes come to meet talented high school students and evaluate students projects. Winners are going to the world wide Intel ISEF Contest.