The 2017 edition of Women in Tech Week has officially been launched Accra. The edition will be a week-long event which will provide opportunities to train women and girls, and to discuss technology and entrepreneurship issues affecting women around the world.
Launching the event, Founder of Women in Tech Africa and CEO of Edel Consult, Ethel Cofie said:
“Last year, through the week-long event, we supported the training of more than 300 girls in Arduino, Raspberry, scratch programming in Africa and touched over 10,000 Women in the Tech Space both virtually and physically. That was a huge success, and we’re looking to do more this year.”
She continued:
“We’re gradually claiming a space for women and girls involved in technology in Africa. We hope this year’s event will give individuals and organizations the opportunity to create their own user-generated women in tech week to enable a global collective impact. ”
About The Event
The meeting is an opportunity for women globally to come together to network, share and empower each other in the quest to improve and push forward technological growth agenda.
The 2017 event will simultaneously take place in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Botswana, Cape Verde, China, Germany, United States of America, Canada, Belgium, UK among others. More than 10,000 participants from across Africa and the diaspora are expected to be part of the event.
About Women In Tech Africa
Supporting Women in Tech Across Africa to Positively to Support their Communities Positively.
Women in Tech Africa mission is 3 fold:
• Creating today’s female leaders and role Models for tomorrow’s Women
• Showing the world what a strong African woman in capable of achieving
• Support African growth through technology
Women in Tech Africa has membership of women in over 30 countries in Africa and has physical Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and London with launches in South Africa and Nigeria planned before the end of the year.
Africa Women in Tech is the brainchild of the ICT4D GH Foundation.
Source: Ghanaweb
