Women's Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear friend, I hope you are doing well during this tough period. It’s not an easy time but any stretch of the imagination. We ended 2019 at W.TEC on such a high and had even greater hopes for 2020 that none of us could have predicted that a few months into the year, we would …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I learnt a song when I was younger and the chorus rang “It’s a small world after all…” I can’t remember any of the other words. These lyrics came back to me when I visited Port Elizabeth in South Africa, as part of a study visit for the Digital Generation Youth project on which my …
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By Oreoluwa Lesi I think it’s important to continually expand and deepen one’s field of knowledge. And being a social entrepreneur for the last dozen odd years, means that I have sought out books, articles, podcasts, interviews and other opportunities to learn more about social entrepreneurship. Over the last few years, my interest has increasingly …
MAIN FUNCTIONS The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is seeking a Research and Documentation Officer, who will coordinate the organisation’s gender and technology-centered research, writing and publication work. This includes providing research input for the analysis required to develop, implement, review and evaluate new and existing programmes and activities; leading research into pertinent and cutting-edge …
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One of our girls at W.TEC is a finalist in the Girls Voices for Change Contest. Omolabake from Lagos City College – Sabo Yaba Lagos, is a a finalist in the Photography category of the contest. Please vote for her to win a scholarship to pay all her school related costs and start her off …
On April 25, 2019, W.TEC Executive Director, Oreoluwa Lesi, organised and participated in a session at the recently-concluded Digital Rights Inclusion Forum 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria called “Internet Governance: Multi-stakeholderism and Participation in the Assigned Names and Numbers Space.“ The Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (formerly Internet Freedom Forum- IFF) DRIF is an arena where …
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By Oreoluwa Lesi The 64th ICANN public meeting took place in Kobe, Japan from March 8 to 14, 2019 and I had the honour of being able to participate in it. It was only my 3rd ICANN public meeting, but a far cry from my first (ICANN 61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), where I …
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By Oreoluwa Lesi The 64th ICANN public meeting took place in Kobe, Japan from March 8 to 14, 2019 and I had the honour of being able to participate in it. It was only my 3rd ICANN public meeting, but a far cry from my first (ICANN 61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), where I …
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To celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), the online fundraising platform GlobalGiving is offering 6 organisations the chance to win a year-long spot in its Girl Fund. This would provide access to funding for an entire year to the winning organisations. W.TEC is in the running to win one of these 6 spots. The funds raised …
Dear friends, W.TEC is fundraising for our 2019 She Creates STEM Camps for girls. Thank you for your support of W.TEC over the years. With your help, we have been able to reach out and inspire just over 27,000 girls and women to use technology in more meaningful ways for learning, entrepreneurship, professional development and …
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