ICT Champions

The women belong to the group TIAME, a farming group in the village of Peko-Misegese, in Morogoro. “TIAME” is the local language for “lets us work together”. This group produces various crops including vegetables, beans, sunflower and round potatoes but accessibility to market information is a big problem.

Toyin Ajao-Dawodu from Nigeria is so into women blogging she helps run a technology camp for girls in Nigeria coordinated by her organisation, Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. Together with W.Tech’s Executive Director, Oreoluwa Somolu, she co-facilitated the workshop “Blogs can move the world” at last year’s Association for Women in Development’s Forum on Movement Building.

Presentamos a las cuatro latinoamericanas que participan del Encuentro para el Intercambio Feminista de Tecnología (FTX) que se realiza en Ciudad del Cabo, del 10 al 12 de noviembre, como facilitadoras e instructoras. Son parte de un equipo de 15 mujeres de diversos países especialmente seleccionadas para trabajar durante el FTX. Compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias con mujeres de distintas culturas e idiomas es todo un desafío, que ellas asumen con mucho entusiasmo. Estas mujeres son:

Dorcas Muthoni, long-time APC-Africa-Women (AAW) member and trainer, has been recognized as an Anita Borg Change Agent. Muthoni’s work in computer training and especially in promoting the use of free and open source software among African women certainly deserves high merits.

Fatma Mint Elkory est la présidente et également webmestre de NTIC & CITOYENNETE, une organisation non gouvernementale, apolitique, à but non-lucrative et qui existe depuis février 2001 en Mauritanie. Elle partage ici ses réalisations dans le domaine des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC).

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Gisèle Dovi, coordonnatrice de l’association Leadership pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable, LEAD-Togo parle de son expérience avec les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) au cours d’une entrevue réalisée par Sylvie Niombo. co-coordonnatrice d’APC-Femmes-Afrique.

Gisèle Dovi travaille par ailleurs pour le Centre international pour la fertilité des sols et le développement agricole, soit en abrégé, IFDC.

Have you just ended your maternity or parental leave? Have you been out of the labour market for a longer period? Have you just finished your degree? Are you interested in IT or want to try something new? Do you want to find out if IT could be an option?

Omolayo Samuel became a role model for women in ICT when she became the first woman to climb a communications tower in northern Nigeria, and quite likely even in the whole country, on August 1 of this year. She is a member of the Fantsuam Foundation’s ICT Department.

Read the full article on APC News: http://www.apc.org/en/news/gender/africa/omolayo-samuel-climbing-above-s…