María de Maeztu Gender & ICT program
The Maria de Maeztu Gender & ICT program, a broad gender strategy at DTIC-UPF in collaboration with many other entities (get to know them below).
- Over 1.000 participants in the #GirlsHacks and courses (now Girls in Data Science and #GirlsTech Summer Camps), and support to programs such as Technovation
- Boys and girls in schools talking about women in ICT in the award-winning Wisibilízalas contest or the MujeresTech Summit
- Leading professionals mentoring current female engineering students
- Wikimujeres - ViquidonesUPF: An active group filling the gender gap in Wikipedia
- Participation in gender and technology events
NEW! Dorcas Muthoni conferred with a doctorate honoris causa by our University to recognise her commitment to fight poverty and equality using technology. Ceremony on December 15th (details)
And more! check the boxes below for details on each of the lines of action.
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Empowering girls with technology
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Improving the training of the future engineers
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Female visibility in ICT
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Supporting professionals: networks & talks
Co-organisers, sponsors and collaborators
A collaborative effort: co-organisers, sponsors and collaborators. Would you like to join? Contact aurelio (dot) ruiz (youknowwhat) upf (dot) edu
Related Assets:
- The Wisibilízalas contest for schools, special distinction at [email protected] awards
- Celebrating the International Day of Girls and Women in Science with Wisibilízalas
- Girls and technology for a social cause
- Ruiz-Garcia A., Freire A., Subirats L., Lessons learned in promoting new technologies and engineering in girls through a girls hackathon and mentoring. 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EduLearn16)
- Gender and Wikipedia 2017
- Promoting the role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action
- Celebrating the Science Week! Collaborative and participatory data-driven social action
- New edition of the #GirlsHack - promoting technology among Girls