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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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posted on:07/08/15

The Digital Empowerment Foundation is an ICT for Development organization that sponsors a variety of projects to empower women and other marginalized groups including "Helping Women Go Online," "Wireless Women for Entrepreneurship and Empowerment (W2E2)," and the "mBillionth Awards," among others.

The Digital Girls Club will provide hands-on technology education for Nigerian girls in secondary schools through weekly workshops; to nurture interest in ICT amongst girls. Girls interested in participating must register in the digital girls club of their schools before access to portal. Parents/Guardians who want their girls to participate in the Digital Girls Club should contact their school to find out if the club already exists to enable them enroll their wards; otherwise, inform school to participate. 

 

The Digital Leadership Institute has a unique mission to increase participation of girls and women in ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) studies, careers and leadership around the world.  The following are DLI led initiatives in these areas: AdaAwards.com, g-Hive.org, inQube , Girls Code Europe, DigitalMuse.org , Women2020.org.

posted on:08/02/16
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Made by Girls is a program at Digital Media Academy dedicated to empowering girls. It offers courses designed to increase confidence in coding and computer science. Classes are led by female mentors dedicated to serving as role models and building a supportive community for girl learners. Scholarships are also available for females aged 8-17 residing in US or Canada to cover the tuition fees of the courses.

posted on:09/04/15
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Expression and empowerment through creative, digital enterprise

DigitalMuse.org, an initiative of Zen Digital Europe, is a global collaborative network stimulating girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and improving their digital skills through creative enterprises such as music & DJ-ing, design & visual arts, video games & software programming, and TV, film & audio production.

At DigitalMuse.org, girls interact directly with role model artists and practitioners from creative sectors and learn practical skills they can use in their daily lives. This way they are also empowered to express their own stories through digital and entertainment media.

The DigitalMuse.org network connects girls of all ages around the world, giving them ways to share their stories in order to improve the quantity and quality of stories told about girls and women in media, worldwide.

posted on:08/02/16
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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. It was born in July 2014 in Berlin and started by two Olas: Sitarska and Sendecka. Today, Django Girls is a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more women to Python & Django community. 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.

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.

 

Extensive program designed to encourage pre-college and college women to study math, science, and engineering.

Douglas Project Program

Committed to helping woman who are interested in science, technology, engeneering and math (STEM) field to excell and reach their goals. 

Dream-wings is a free online learning portal run by Gyeonggi Women’s Development Center – GWDC (www.womenpro.or.kr). It offers e-learning services and over 300 courses in office work, healthcare, social welfare, IT, foreign languages and hobbies. Dream wings-supports women’s career development, including finding a job or starting a new business. It started off in 2004 as a local website built for women living in Gyeonggi Province. Based on the research conducted by Samsung SDS, GWDC created a master plan offering e-learning services to women who have experienced an extensive period of career breaks. A year later, GWDC opened the online Gyeonggi Women Career Development Center, Korea’s first-ever free e-learning service for women. It began to offer nation-wide services in 2011. This year, GWDC introduced a mobile version of the portal – Smart Dream-wings. Focused primarily on IT education, Dream-wings has expanded the scope of its services into total career development support by adding diagnostic services (e.g. competency diagnosis and employability diagnosis) and support for job placement and business start-up. The initiative is fully funded by the government.

The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is a European multi-stakeholder partnership representing high-level expertise in women and technology development from government, business, academia and non-profit sectors supporting regional innovation through leveraging resources, research, best practices and services.

The European Centre for Women and Technology is a European non-profit organization registered under Norwegian law.

ECWT functions as the European Regional Point of Contact, the first of Ten Regional Centers planned to be established around the world, together constituting Global Women and Technology (GWT).

What's in it for me?
- Join the largest European community on women and technology
- Be a public member
- Be a business member
- Be an academia member

Join the ECWT as a member, if you want to or are working in the Women and Technology area  in the field of:
• Education
• Workforce
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• Research
• Innovation
To read more about our organization and to register click here.

Eko-Konnect is a cluster of the Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN). Its aims to support network connectivity and collaboration between education and research organisations in the Lagos area as part of wider efforts to establish a functional and sustainable National Research and Education Network (NREN).

It was established in December 2009 in an initiative led by the University of Lagos to exploit the geographical proximity to sea cables and telecommunication companies to secure high speed and affordable Internet connectivity for the research and education community.

Eko-Konnect has as it's objectives:

- Connecting participating institutions in a high speed network suitable for academic activity.
- Good inter-operability between research organizations and higher education networks that enable secure anytime, anywhere access by students, teachers and researchers.
- Fostering of collaborative research in network technology and the development of internet resources, training, and usergroups amongst participating institutions.
- Collaboration with other stakeholders to establish the national Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN) and regional West and Central African network (WACREN).

Eko-Konnect is registered in Nigeria as a non-profit association to further these aims and objectives.

Programs:
- ATI. The “Africa Training Initiative” is a 4-stage sustainable program developed jointly by Eko-Konnect and TeamCymru, a US-based Internet Security and Research Organisation, to help the Internet community in Africa meet this challenge through:
   - Training and Education
   - Collaboration and Intelligence building through data sharing, research and industry networking
   - Development and deployment of operational practices
   - Development of relevant support and facilitating bodies – CERTS, NOGs, etc.

- EkaLib. Eko-Konnect KohaAutomated Libraries (EkaLib) is a collaborative project for libraries dedicated to creating a shared catalog and an integrated system for libraries using Koha, the free and open source software library automation package.

- Eko-Geeks are students from various disciplines of the member institutions of Eko-Konnect. The group seeks to empower its members with technological knowhow irrespective of discipline and is focused on spreading the use, development and deployment of open source tools and services in their various institutions of learning.

- Girls in ICT is a program to equip girls and young women for a career in ICT. It aims to encourage girls to actively participate in ICT careers and provide opportunity for girls to learn the fundamental skills they need to be competitive in an increasingly technological world. Through specially tailored activities, the program will help young women think outside the box in the use and production of technology.

- ng-Mobicon is a series of activities related to mobile application and usage that will lead to the following program outputs:

   1.A comprehensive report on the use of mobile applications in Nigeria
   2.A capacity building workshop on Android mobile development for Eko-Konnect students
   3.Participatory design sessions with civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations with a view to understanding the requirements for their mobile applications.
   4.Development of 5 mobile applications that can impact areas of social change, citizen engagement, youth and gender rights and education in Nigeria.
   5.Develop Mobile Software Innovation Labs on Eko-Konnect campuses beginning with University of Lagos.

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Promovido por el Instituto Asturiano de la Mujer, Enredadas 2.0 es un programa formativo en el que se trabaja con las mujeres para facilitar e incrementar el uso de las TIC al mismo tiempo que se fomenta su visibilidad en la red gracias al uso de herramientas 2.0.

Entre los objetivos están:

  • Impulsar la igualdad en la red.
  • Con una mayor participación de mujeres pero también con más contenidos elaborados por mujeres.
  • Con una mayor presencia de las reflexiones y opiniones de las mujeres.
  • Potenciando los contenidos de quienes compartimos un compromiso con la igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres.

Duración del taller 12 horas.

posted on:02/06/15
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At Ericsson, we are always looking for students and young professionals with inquiring minds who can contribute to our industry-leading solutions, and we seek talented, driven and passionate individuals to continue creating solutions that positively impact people’s lives. As a global company, we’ll give you the freedom to think big—and the support to bring your ideas to life. Working alongside experts who will support your development, you’ll be on track for a bright future. So, if you are looking for company that can offer a real opportunity to make a difference, Ericsson can deliver.

 

posted on:15/01/16
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Everybody Code Now! Is a non-profit organization that works to empower the next generation of leaders in computing to transform their future and help lead their communities towards a new era of technical expertise and entrepreneurship from exposure to basic programming skills. It offers programs targeting girls aged 9-17 to introduce them to computer science and teach them the basics of coding.

posted on:09/04/15

A non profit organization committed to empowering women through technology. Awareness building, skill building, events and seminars.