Provides information on IT & Engineering scholarships, Mentoring,  International programmes, summer programmes, speaker programmes

The Dutch National Expert Organization on Girls/Women has a variety of projects to encourage more women and girls to follow STEM paths.  For example, its Science/Technology's Gender and STEM Network brings together policymakers, university researchers, and STEM professionals to gain insight into factors behind girls' decisions to enter STEM.  Other initiatives focus on raising awareness among secondary school girls, Girls in ICT Day style activities, workshops for primary school girls, campaigns to break STEM gender stereotypes, and mentoring and shadowing programmes.

STEM Camps

The African Girls STEM camp is part of a major effort by WAAW Foundation to attract more African girls (ages 11-15yrs) into STEM disciplines early in life when career decisions are made.

What is the WAAW STEM Camp?
1.An opportunity for girls to learn about role models in STEM careers, and build mentor relationships.
2.Outstanding instructors with extensive backgrounds in Science, Technology and Math teaching the workshops.
3.A one-week introduction to the world of technology and engineering, with intense individual and team participation.
4.Practical, hands-on lessons promoting experiential learning.
5.A fun residential camping experience making friends and promoting peer communities.
6.A hands-on experience with high-tech equipment and processes.

Scholarships

Our $500 scholarship program initiated in 2008, is aimed at providing timely financial support to academically promising female African Students who are currently in STEM related undergraduate disciplines in an African College or University. Awardees must demonstrate financial need and a strong commitment to participating in building Africa. The initiative also promotes peers networks that provide support and mentoring to ensure completion in their chosen STEM fields.

Mentoring African Women in STEM

One of the keys to improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa is to build and sustain a strong, effective talent pool for the delivery of Science and Technology innovation. This requires fostering the STEM capacity of women while strengthening the mentoring and peer networks.
This initiative expands the impact of WAAWs STEM camps and scholarships, easing the participants access to mentors while building their skills and professional networks. In turn, it brings the groundbreaking work of Professional African women in STEM to the national, regional and global stages, where it is much needed. 
 

Offers female-only coding bootcamps with job placement guarantees.  They also hold summer camps and have online tutorials for educators.  Provides grants for women.

Part of the Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) Programme, WICWALES supports women in the ICT sector.  It holds workshops for women to improve their employment prospects in technical positions. In conjunction with these up-skilling workshops, WICWALES also imparts mentoring on participants, networking opportunities, and works with employers to reduce gender pay gaps and raise awareness of other gender-related issues in the workplace.

Summer employment resource for WISE NL site.

Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) is a national independent Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organization established in 1994 in response to the need of promoting effective use of the media for the advancement of women.

WOMEC recognizes that women’s issues are a dimension of many issues such as education, health, environment, and human rights, and is committed to giving women public voice and visibility through the mass media to expand their participation in the public arena.

Since WOMEC was founded and in a relatively brief period of operation, its work and activities have earned for it very quickly growing respect and recognition among women’s organization and individual women who seek to make an impact in their chosen fields of endeavor through effective use of the media.

WOMEC is the only such organization in Ghana actively working in this direction.

WOMEC believes all segments of the population must be given equal space to develop their full potentials. In line with this, WOMEC is committed to creating a forum for networking and fostering exchanges among different segments of the population.

WOMEC aims at achieving its goal by:

Providing media skills training for women both in leadership and at the grassroots level
Giving greater visibility to women through the media
Giving visibility to female electioneering candidates through the media before, during and after elections
Serving as a centre of excellence that focuses on the training, capacity building and create a platform for exchange of ideas and facilitates networking of media women in the sub-region for female journalists;
Developing a database on women in the media in Africa which will hold information on the human resources of female journalists in Africa;

Establishing a resource centre for female journalists to learn new skills and access information;
Developing a mentorship program between young female journalists and the older experienced journalists in the West African sub-region;

Organizing ICT training for women NGO’s and women in media to help them to effectively use ICT in their work;
Establishing an exchange program for female journalists in Africa to enable them share experiences, ideas and learn from each other.

Current Programs:
- Women and ICT: We believe that it is essential to engage more women in accessing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for equality and development in Africa.

- Women and leadership: By training women in IT and media and giving them a space for discussion, WOMEC is working actively to strengthen the role of the female leaders and is developing the leadership of the women yet to take action in their communities

- Advocacy: Undertake research on gender issues with a view to providing up-to-date facts and figures to service women’s organizations and other institutions concerned with advocacy and awareness creation;

- Services: WOMEC offers a 12 weeks beginner course to women at grassroots level. We set the following

  objectives for the training:

     - to empower women with the power of the new technologies;

    - to bring more awareness among the women about the existence of women’s actions in their countries and internationally;

    - to give them the skills of contributing to a larger discussion and campaign for gender equality.

WeTech stands for Women Enhancing Technology. It is a consortium of different partners that support trainings to enhance girls and women’s careers in technology.

Wired Woman is a Canadian registered non-profit society with a mission to encourage women to explore opportunities, build successful careers, and become a driving force in science, technology and new media.

Women in Information Technology Management (WITM) is committed to the advancement of women with an interest in pursuing a career in IT Management. Our mission is “To empower, encourage, and equip females in ITM with the necessary resources to broaden horizons, exceed expectations, and forge through industry barriers." Through organizing networking nights, speaker panels, and interactive workshops, WITM enhances personal development by creating a sense of leadership, and mentorship. WITM seeks and provides opportunities to connect students with industry and fosters a platform where females can share their visions, wisdom, and experiences.

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.