October 27TH, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Members of Geared-Up Girls have been lugging their robot, Shakti (the Sanskrit word for power), around in a suitcase all morning for practice at Festival Arena, frantically adding tweaks to improve the consistency and reliability of the prototype. The all-girl team representing India at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai...
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Afghan all-girls team challenge status quo to compete in robotics contest
October 27th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): The Afghanistan booth at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai is packed, with hardly any space to move. The all-teenage-girl Afghan Dreamers team are being filmed for a documentary and trailed everywhere by a camera crew while curious bystanders look on. The girls first garnered global attention in 2017 when...
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Meet the female STEM role models redefining femininity in the sciences
October 27th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Sofia Nanjari was just nine when she was introduced to robotics. She overheard her brother, then an engineering first-year undergraduate student, complain about how hard robotics programming was. She later went on to YouTube for tutorial videos, and the first thing she ever learned to build and program were traffic light...
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Human Trafficking in the Digital Age
It is an absolute pleasure to be here albeit digitally. Ill begin with a brief introduction about my work. I founded Ananke in 2014 a digital platform that empowers women through awareness, education and advocacy. We showcase visionary women as role models for aspiring women and girls to emulate and follow. With a gender...
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Women Who Tech
Ten of the top women-led startups working tirelessly to solve some of our countrys biggest issues will pitch prominent investors for a chance to win a $50K grant and $280K in Google Cloud services. Women Who Tech is a non-profit organization which was launched in 2008 in an effort to bring together women trailblazers disrupting...
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Prospects of Blockchain & Womens Participation
Blockchain, as we know it, has several definitions. One of such simple definitions is that a blockchain is a chain of chronological blocks which represents a distributed database, existing on multiple computers at the same time. It is a continuously growing list of digital records in blocks which are linked and secured using cryptography. The...
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Cisco: From Empowerment to Impact
Technology has played a pivotal role empowering women not just digitally but socio-politically and economically as well. Through a parallel reality that is the World Wide Web women have already begun leaning in. That said, there is still a long way to go, many biases to be dealt with one step at a time and...
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The Jewelry That Can Save Womens Lives
Imagine a crowd ready to take action in emergency situations, a bunch of people who will always be nearby to help as quickly as possible. Imagine if this crowd could be activated with a click of a button. Sounds good, right? We would be creating a safer environment! Now stop imagining. This is exactly what...
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Leveraging Tech for Women Economic Empowerment
Lahore (Pakistan), February 1st, 2016: This week UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, organized a skills development workshop on Women and Food Tech Sharing Economy: Employability and Empowerment to enable women to focus on self-efficiency and resourcefulness through innovation. The training took place at Hospitality Inn in January...
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Connecting Women, Transforming Lives
WAKE stands for Womens Alliance for Knowledge Exchange. It is a non-profit organization which we founded in January 2015. It is actually an extension of what Heather Ramsey and I have been doing for the last 15 years. The two of us have worked together on a number of women in STEM programmes that focus...