Category: Africa

Zaheeda Tshankie – Data Scientist and Entrepreneur

October 6, 2020

For achieving gender equality (in tech) there has to be a lot of unlearning within communities regarding gender roles. Zaheeda Tshankie is a young mother,

Victoria Ngono – Founder and Executive Director of Girls in STEM Trust

June 9, 2020

Mentorship played a strong part in cementing my resolve to pursue a career in Tech, it came in various forms and had a lasting impact

Gloria Muhoro – Gender, Technology & Innovation Specialist at African Development Bank

April 14, 2020

Technology must represent the diversity of the people it serves. For this to happen, we need more women in the tech sector and using technology.

Sylvia Mukasa – Founder and CEO of GlobalX Investments Ltd/GlobalX Innovation Labs

March 19, 2020

You can be anything you want to be if you put to heart and mind to it, because gender does not define what or who

Vivian Opondoh – Co-founder and CEO at Farmula

March 5, 2020

My advice would be to have more conversations around women in STEM and provide other females support in accessing STEM programs. Vivian Opondoh is an

Angele Messa – Co-founder of EduClick

February 4, 2020

Working as an EdTech Entrepreneur – We have a maker space where we offer coding classes; immerse kids into modern technology like 3D printing, virtual

Chepkemoi Magdaline – Founder and Executive Director at EldoHub

January 16, 2020

Our vision is to make EldoHub an education technology platform targeting youth between the age of 18 to 35 years, with an aim of preparing

Sarah Luyele Njamu – CEO and Founder of Compu-Connect Education

January 2, 2020

There has never been a more exciting time to do business as woman than now, technology has opened up so many avenues where women can

Ruth Kaveke – Executive Director at Pwani Teknowgalz

December 17, 2019

In my own opinion, to bridge the gender gap of women in technology should start down from parenting, girls are always given dolls as compared to

Sewagodimo Matlapeng – Software developer at Yoco

December 10, 2019

My advice for anyone is don’t be afraid to embarrass yourself.  I think as women we live in constant fear of embarrassing ourselves. This is