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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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The program seeks to provide tutoring to students from disadvantaged suburbs to help them get through the stages of higher education with the prospect of obtaining a higher education qualification and build a professional network.  As a participant in the Cercle program, Alcatel-Lucent is directly involved in the pursuit of greater cultural diversity and a broader social mix. It is a public / private partnership with a common objective : diversity.

The program involves young people mainly from 46 secondary schools and 40 universities in disadvantaged urban areas selected by the Ministry of National Education.  The objective is to help them get through the stages of higher education with the prospect of obtaining a higher education qualification in three curricula for excellence:

The leading university for telecoms engineers (ENST in Brittany, ISEP in Paris, etc.)
The leading university for general engineers (ENSEEIHT, ESIEE in Paris, etc.)
The leading university for business (Sciences Po, ESC in Rennes, etc.) 

ACM-W's mission is to celebrate, inform and support women in computing, and work with the ACM-W community of computer scientists, educators, employers and policy makers to improve working and learning environments for women.  This includes promoting activities that result in more equal representation of women in CS such as mentoring or role modeling; monitoring the status of women in industrial and computing through the gathering of statistics; providing historical information about women's accomplishments and roles in CS; and serving as a repository of information about programs, documents and policies of concern to women in CS.

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.

 

The greenlight for girls foundation ("g4g") is a Brussels-based, international non-profit organization (asbl) under Belgian law, founded in November 2011. We are a volunteer organization with a five-member board of directors who act in strategic and operational capacities.

The mission of greenlight for girls is to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to girls of all ages and backgrounds, in order to stimulate greater participation of girls, young women and career-age women in STEM-related studies and careers. To achieve this mission, we carry out the following types of activities around the world, with a special focus on reaching less-advantaged communities.

a. Girl-focused Events: Teaching STEM, professional skills and interpersonal skills, in hands-on and fun ways, through workshops run by volunteer women role-model practitioners from these sectors.

b. Kid-focused Events: Teaching STEM, professional skills and interpersonal skills through workshops run by volunteer female role model practitioners from STEM sectors. These events are classroom-sized, and reach students, teachers and even parents and other community-members.

c.  Public-Sector Initiatives: Projects and initiatives that promote STEM-related skills -- including eskills and digital literacy -- to young girls, young women and career-age women, with the goal of stimulating interest in these areas and increasing employability of “girls of all ages”.

d. Basic Research on girls/young women in STEM studies and careers: We are about to publish a report on the first-ever such research in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

e. Greenlight Global Scholarship Fund: A grant to provide college-level education in STEM-related areas to girls in disadvantaged communities around the world. Launched in Bangalore, India in 2012. 

posted on:22/11/15

Offers five month junior front-end developer courses for women. 60% of graduates find employment in the field following graduation.

For Female studenst in developing countries who are currently studying at South Africa at the University of Cape Town

Administered by University of Cape Town.

Wonderful ICT Girls Can Do IT! seeks to stimulate girls' interest in science and technology through "enjoyable activities with robotics, electrical circuits, virtual simulators and multimedia educational software."  The organization holds Saturday workshops and university students also mentor younger girls.