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Call for Participation: Southern African Young Women’s Festival

By codezed at 2 August, 2010, 10:08 pm

Calling All Young Women in Southern African to 3 Days of Celebration! Deadline: 15 August 2010. The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT), in collaboration with young women’s networks and formations in Southern Africa, are hosting a Southern African Young Women’s Festival (SAYWF) in Harare from 24 [...]

Remmy Nweke WINS African FOSS Reporter’s Award

By codezed at 25 May, 2010, 4:34 pm

Senior Reporter and Head of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) desk at Champion Newspapers Limited, Lagos-Nigeria has bagged the first-ever African Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Reporter’s award. Recieving the award which was the first of its kind by the Free and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) and Digital Commons,Remmy said that there was need for Journalists [...]

Gender In Information And Communication Technologies For Development

By codezed at 2 October, 2009, 8:35 am

The International Taskforce on Women and ICTs (ITF) congratulates the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) for operationalizing its commitment to gender as one of its key areas in its 2009-2010 Action Plan adopted today at the Global Forum on ICT and Innovation for Education being held in Monterrey, Mexico. Based in [...]

Important Step Forward In Mainstreaming Gender In Ict4d

By codezed at 14 September, 2009, 8:44 pm

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

By brenda at 14 September, 2009, 8:43 pm

For any interested female candidates in the technical field. As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to furthering Anita’s vision, Google are pleased to announce The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Through the scholarship, Google Anita Borg aim to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, and become active [...]