news

HomeAll Postsnews
Miss.Africa Voices news
July 15, 2018
Molo Mhlaba, Finalist in the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund: Aims to be a network of iSTEAM schools

Molo Mhlaba Schools, South Africa is a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund In our interview today Ms. Rethabile Sonibare, the Founder Thope Foundation which runs the Molo Mhlaba Schools is a pan-African network of low fee private schools for girls speaks Miss.Africa Digital Program. Can you tell us about this project that has applied for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund…

Read more
373Views 0
Tags: , , , , ,
Miss.Africa Voices news
July 15, 2018
Wonders Lab, Finalist in the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund: motivates young girls to step in the tech field

Wonders lab based in Sudan, is a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program spoke the CEO, Ms. Somia Mohamed Ali Dousa, about the program and how she intends to motivate more young girls to step in the Tech field. Can you tell us about this project that has applied for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Awards?…

Read more
454Views 0
Tags: , , , ,
Miss.Africa Voices news
July 10, 2018
Abocoders Nigeria Grand Prize Winner, 2017 Miss.Africa Seed Fund: Catalysing Access and Fighting Low technology penetration in Northern Nigeria

AboCoders, Nigeria was a winner in the 2017 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Sarah Osikhuemhe, the AboCoders project lead. The Abocoders initiative is located in the Northern Region of Nigeria. The startup headed by Ms. Simi Olusola, purposes to provide secure & sustainable livelihoods for young women in Northern Nigeria using ICT training with an…

Read more
427Views 0
Tags: , , , ,
Miss.Africa Voices news
July 9, 2018
Ubongo Game Lab Zambia, a 2017 Miss.Africa Seed Fund winner is promoting programming & game development skills among women

The Games Plus Girls bootcamp is an annual workshop by Ubongo Game Lab that focuses on increasing female participation in game development and programming, was a winner for the 2017 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Sithembile Ncube the Founder – Ubongo Game Lab. She tells us what the program entails in the interview below Q1.…

Read more
410Views 0
Tags: , , , , , , ,
Events news Women in STEM News
May 16, 2018
We need to address the digital gender divide to bridge the economic divide

Labour markets and educational needs are being transformed for women and young people by the onslaught of fast-moving technological change, a United Nations commission hears Negative stereotypes about women and girls studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects are among the impediments to an inclusive world where hi-tech solutions solve global problems, the 21st session of the UN Commission…

Read more
416Views 0
Tags: , , ,
news
April 26, 2018
Miss.Africa celebrates the ITU #GirlsinICT Day

Message From the Founder of Miss.Africa Every year the ICT Girls Day reminds us that empowering women and girls and achieving gender equality is crucial to creating inclusive, open and prosperous societies. Hence, ICT is a tool through which gender equity and women’s empowerment can be advanced, and is essential to the creation of societies in which both women and…

Read more
409Views 0
Tags: , , , ,
Events news Women in STEM News
December 14, 2017
ITU: Meet the EQUALS in Tech Award finalists: the Miss.Africa Digital programme

By ITU News Miss.Africa Digital, a Pan-African programme to promote digital skills for women across the continent, has been named as a finalist for the Equals in Tech Awards, which take place in Geneva, Switzerland next week. ITU News recently caught up with Sophia Bekele, the founder and Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica.Org, a Kenya-based organization that provides the awards for…

Read more
368Views 0
Tags: , , ,
Events news
May 26, 2017
DCA Trust Announces AboCoders, Nigeria as the Winner of Miss.Africa Seed Fund Grand Prize

Congrats to Winners!, Nigeria’s AboCoders won the USD 5000 Grand Seed Fund Prize. Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar University STEM Center and Zambia’s Ubongo Game Lab, were selected as the winners of the USD 1000 Geographic/Country Category. PORT LOUIS, Mauritius – May 25, 2017 – PRLog — The Pan-African trust program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) announces the 2016/17 winners of the Miss.Africa Seed…

Read more
405Views 0
Tags: , , ,
news
May 10, 2017
#BeBoldForChange Miss.Africa celebrates the ITU ICT Girls Day

Message From the Founder of Miss.Africa Every young girl & woman ought to have the tools to take control of her life. Today, it’s almost uniquely ICT skills that offer growing employment, innovation, and opportunity with the large digital gender divide. However, getting more girls to join the ICT field seem a no-brainer to plug that gap. The problem isn’t…

Read more
405Views 0
Tags: ,
news
November 14, 2016
Miss.Africa Mobile App Developers graduate, Nairobi, Kenya

Twenty Five (25) women selected from over three hundred applicants benefited directly by receiving 3 months training at eMobilis which was selected DCA Trust’s partner. eMobilis emerged as the grand prize winner of the inaugural Miss.Africa Seed Fund.   The two other winners were a Madagascar based Tech start-up MDG/Pyladies Antananarivo and Pycon Cameroon, a start up that teaches computer coding…

Read more
405Views 0
Tags: , , ,
Site logo
Copyright © 2024 by Miss.Africa Digital. All rights reserved.