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The First Edition of the African Summit on Women and Girls in Technology was held on the 13 to the 14 of September 2016 in Accra, with about 150 digital equality advocates in attendance. It was a collaboration between Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the World Wide Web Foundation, UN Women , the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of ...
In 1994, Anita Borg and Telle Whitney founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. With the initial idea of creating a conference by and for women computer scientists, Borg and Whitney met over dinner, with a blank sheet of paper, having no idea how to start a conference, and started to plan out their vision.
The Women in Technology International (WITI) is a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. [231] The Arab Women in Computing has many chapters across the world and focuses on encouraging women to work with technology and provides networking opportunities between industry experts and academicians and ...
The SWE archives contain a series of letters from the Elsie Eaves Papers (bequeathed to the Society), which document the origins of the Society in the early 20th century. . In 1919, a group of women at the University of Colorado helped establish a small community of women with an engineering or science background, called the American Society of Women Engineers and Architects.
In collaboration with the MTN Foundation, Women in Tech Africa organized the MTN Girl Code project in 2017. [4] This project sought to increase the number of women participating in the MTN App Challenge (an MTN initiative run annually), [5] improve the number of ladies in the coding ecosystem in Ghana and encourage the number of female in the African Startup eco-system.
AnitaB.org (formerly Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Institute for Women in Technology) is a global nonprofit organization based in Belmont, California. [2] Founded by computer scientists Anita Borg and Telle Whitney , the institute's primary aim is to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2] that works to increase participation of girls and women in computing. NCWIT was founded in 2004 by Lucinda (Lucy) Sanders , [ 6 ] Dr. Telle Whitney , and Dr. Robert (Bobby) Schnabel. [ 7 ]
Library Journal called Women in Tech "The essential handbook for women in technology -- engaging, practical, and inspirational." [5]In the fall of 2016 the University of California, Berkeley taught a class on Wheeler's book and the necessities for overcoming barriers to entry in the technology industry and the requirements for success as a woman trying to enter the field.