WIT provides a diverse mix of resources to empower Nigerian women, youth, and children. Offerings include hosted events, webinars, articles, training, networking, career fairs, and contests.

Recently, WITIN is supporting an international mobile app challenge that encourages teams of secondary school girls to develop mobile apps, conduct market research, write business plans, and create a funding pitch. Nigerian teams will compete and a national winner will then travel to California to compete globally on May 1st, 2013. Such a challenge is inspiring for any country, yet alone Nigeria, and we look forward to sharing news of the success.

Another current initiative aims to target 10,000 marginalized women for empowerment via ICT by the end of 2013. The hope is that with support, women can create online presences for their businesses. WITIN also supports International Girl in ICT Day and has participated in numerous ITU and Google events.

Other efforts include:
Green ICT projects
Sensitization of at least 250 schools on science, technology, engineering, and maths
Forums on ICT and child development
Twitter aid for women businesses

Be sure to follow @mywitin on Twitter and also check out one of their 13 YouTube videos (like the one below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6RmxoUCc8oE

Women In Technology Uganda

Women in technology Uganda is an initiative that seeks to encourage, inspire and train more women in the tech field through networking, training, mentoring and partnering so as to increase the number of women in tech, the number of techwomen entrepreneurs and more girls to take science courses at university so as to reduce the gender gap and compete favorably with our male counterparts for jobs and improve the livelihoods of women in Uganda.

To achieve our goals we have structured PROGRAMS in place that Include

MENTORING:

Our mentor’s program aims to is to support, stimulate and challenge, using their own extensive skills, knowledge and experience to help you view your business or career in a different light, spot opportunities for development and implement the changes needed for a strong future.
If you have a skill and would like to mentor a young woman or would like to be mentored please contact us.

NETWORKING:

This program’s aim is to build relationships with fellow women that are where you are in your career, more advanced than you and to show case women in Technology that are making it big to act as a learning and encouraging fraction for women that want to advance their careers and tech businesses. We bring
together women from different ICT backgrounds, those that are in top management at ICT firms, students seeking to understand the professional world of IT. We hope in the relationships created from these events we create friendships, business partners and professional prospects for our members. This
platform addresses topics of issues that we face as women that hinder our development in the tech world. One issue at a time we will overcome our fears and contribute to this world of tech. through these events great partnerships are formed.

TRAINING:

For businesswomen, we help fill the gap in the economy for both small and growing businesses by equipping businesswomen with skills that will improve their business using technology. The women we work with have the potential to take the next step towards becoming successful entrepreneurs or are running small businesses that have already had some success but are looking for ways to expand their success with the limitations presented to African women in business.

Our second group of training is for young girls/women that have an interest and passion in coding, developing and designing, our trainings are both in mobile and web applications. We have hands on learning apprentice approach where you get to work on real projects as you learn or perfect your skill as a woman in technology.

Our third category is to create clubs in secondary schools to enourage young girls to join the tech field by showing them exciting tech ideas and sharing success stories of fellow women in tech, when they leave secondary school our hope is to bring them into WITU for our other programs to keep supporting their passion for tech.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The main benefits of being a member are:

• Opportunities to contribute to improving the lives of many people by contributing time and skill to the activities that support, mentoring, education, IT industry
• Opportunities to support and assist in the varied activities of the WITU
• Access to women business mentors from our pool of Mentors
• Opportunity to give back to society by becoming a mentor to a young girl
• Opportunity to become a trainer at our WITU trainings and becoming a role model to another WITU member
• Opportunities to attend Business Luncheons and Dinners arranged by the WITU
• Opportunity to join our development team of experts to work on paying projects
• Join a growing network of women owned tech businesses
• Opportunities to attend luncheons and dinners with other Tech Companies and distinguished society members
• Regular association with peers and colleagues from a mix of providers, users, entrepreneurs, investors and professionals from across the IT industry and within allied support industries and organizations

In addition there are:

• Regular gatherings every third Friday of the month in Kampala city at Hive colab
• Get your company advertised on our site
• Our members have access to new Tech career opportunities in the country through our Jobs Board
• As a member you get referral to paying projects from our partner Organizations
• Access to Finance for specific startups
• Build your IT career through our business networking events and trainings
• Find Partners, co founders for your start up as an IT entrepreneurs

 

The mission of Women in Wireless is to empower and develop female leaders in mobile & digital media.

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

The free, 14-week program (30-hours per week) provides participants with an opportunity to explore careers in trades and technology and to take part in career decision-making activities. This progam seem more geared for trades rather than technology. Contact listed if for the Halifax branch

Women Who Code helps connect women in technology.  They offer technical training, professional development, industry advocacy, networking, and gender inclusion consulting for businesses.

Women Who Tech organizes the Annual Telesummit for Women In Technology, and provides an online platform to bring together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change

WES Doris Gray Scholarships for women in Engineering. The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) aims to enable more women to qualify as engineers and to increase the representation of women in the profession

The Women's Wireless Leadership Forum (WWLF) is a volunteer trade association for Online Networks/  Training & Internships/  Contests and awards/  Other women committed to building diversity in the wireless industry.Through WWLF's events, members share their expertise, broaden their contacts, and advance their career opportunities. WWLF celebrates the experience of the many successful women in the communications industry.

Women@NASA site; has links to internships, careers and opportunties at NASA to encourage women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre offers technology-based projects and digital literacy training to girls and women.

All women and girls confidently exercise their information and communication rights to create social capital and wealth that positively impacts on their lives.

Women’sNet is a South African based non-governmental organisation that strengthens women and girls movements for social change through the strategic use of information communication tools and advocacy that promotes access, the right to information and freedom of expression. Women’sNet achieves this through the following:

 - Women and girls are empowered to use, control and adapt new information and communication tools, skills and knowledge to meet their own needs and to claim their rights.

 - By collaborating with networks and campaigns Women’sNet successfully advocates for policy change that promotes gender justice, internet rights and freedoms.

 - Women’sNet is a key player in advocating for universal access to affordable, secure and gender aware information and communication technology services.

 - Women’sNet is an effective, innovative lead agent for social change with knowledgeable and skilled people.

 - Women’sNet is a learning organisation with systems to monitor and evaluate our interventions in order to increase our impact and deepen our practice.

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information/content generation linked to networking and capacity bui lding. Examples of how content development has gone hand-in-hand with capacity development of women's organisations include the work done in preparation of the Violence Against Women site, the human rights site, and the governance site. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has underpinned all Women'sNet capacity development and content generation activities.

This model en sures Women'sNet's sustainability and the sustainability of South African women's organisations in the long term. Without the engagement with women's organisations and efforts to build their capacity, content flow to the Women'sNet site will be impeded. As it is, most women's organisations lack the capacity and resources to use and engage with ICTs without some facilitation by Women'sNet. Furthermore, without women's organisations' active participation in content generation, Women'sNet loses its authenticity and uniqueness.

Contact us:
Postal Address: PO Box 62577, Marshalltown, 2107
Phone number: +27 21 782 8816
Email: women@womensnet.org.za

 

As a vibrant sustainable non-profit society, in order to increase the number of women in Yukon trades jobs, we; Educate - about the viability of trades and technology opportunities for women; Recruit - by finding women and employers who would be successful together; Support - potential and present trades women.  Background  The Yukon Chapter of WITT was formed in July of 2000 and registered as a non-profit society on August 25, 2000.  Our organization was founded on the experiences of women working in the trades or who had tried to enter the trades. These experiences have demonstrated that women considering careers or education in the trades face barriers that men do not—discrimination towards women doing “men's work”, few role models, employers' attitudes and a lack of information about trades work in general. Women make up nearly half of the Yukon's paid labour force, but tend to be concentrated in jobs that pay less than those of men. Making women of all ages aware that the skilled trades have high hourly wages and that it is possible to “earn while you learn” will help contribute to their making choices that will enhance their life skills and employability. Our Goals To increase the number of Yukon women in trades and technology jobs. Our Beliefs   Are that gender should not be a barrier to pursuing opportunities in a workplace that needs highly skilled and technologically literate employees.