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“The future is literally in our hands, no one can stop us except ourselves”- Simi Olusola, Founder TheAboCoders, Nigeria
Ms. Simi Olusola , Founder of The Abocoders which won the 2016/2017 Miss.Africa Seed Funding narrates how the seed fund enhanced their activities of supporting women and girls with digital Literacy and computer programming skills in the Northern part of Nigeria. Q1: Highlight your general experience with the 2016/17 Miss.Africa Seed Funding Awards Simi: I had a smooth experience with…
Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Ms. Mwaniki about her mobile App training experience at Miss.Africa. She was among the top 3 women who’s Apps won the Mobile App Training. 1. Give us your general experience with Miss.Africa sponsored, eMobilis training basing a bias on women in tech in Kenya & how your digital skills were enhanced. I am a third year…
Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Mrs. Bernice Wangu about her internship experience at DotConnectAfrica Trust. (a) How was your internship experience My internship at DCA was a door that ushered me into the world of technology. I got to learn and dig a depth into the Domain Industry through blogging, newsletter writing, content creation and social media engagement among other sectors.…
Miss.Africa Voices spoke to Ms. Mutune about her mobile App training experience that was Powered by Miss.Africa. She created a Tax Returns Mobile App. 1. General experience with Miss.Africa sponsored, eMobilis training basing a bias on women in tech in Kenya & how your digital skills were enhanced. What I got from the three month Mobile App Training that was…
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WomeninTech: “If you can dream it, you can have it…”- Bukola Gbadamosi, Project Officer, The AboCoders
Bukola Gbadamosi speaks of her experience of teaching how to code using Python, JavaScript, CSS & HTML Python at AboCoders Q1: How did the Miss Africa Seed Fund enhance AboCoders’ initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM? Bukola: The Miss.Africa Seed Fund has enhanced AboCoders initiatives and activities of supporting girls in STEM by financially enabling us to introduce,…
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Women Coders: ”It only takes a ‘Hello World’ to realize how much potential you have”- Margaret
Ms. Margaret Onyango narrates how the Miss.Africa Seed Fund sponsorship honed her expertise in dealing with technology and built her personality. ‘What a man can do, a woman can do it better’. This has come to be a reality in my life after finishing my degree in Computer Science at St. Paul’s University in 2016 and secured scholarship to pursue MIT with eMobilis,…
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“The Miss.Africa Sponsored, AboCoders training has boosted my interest in computers .”- ONWUDIWE God’sfavour
Q1: Give us a general experience with Miss Africa sponsored AboCoders training and how your digital skills were enhanced ONWUDIWE: Before I became a beneficiary and started training here at AboCoders, my previous knowledge of the computer was very little (basically primary school knowledge) and I didn’t know how to handle a computer or what to do with it.…