Call for pitching: Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2020

Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2020 (Naira 5 million financial grant & a mini MBA from International Finance Corporation)

Application Deadline: August 14, 2020

Click here to apply: https://bit.ly/2YrH3vC

The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 Campaign is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access to finance and world-class business trainings as well as mentoring opportunities. This programme has been designed to create an enabling environment for female entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.

Benefits

The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 will provide up to N9 million financial grant and a unique capacity building program aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs.

The programme is designed as a 3-month period incorporating pitching sessions and 8 weeks of mini-MBA training in collaboration with the IFC. Interested persons from Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia and Rwanda as well as with extension to Sierra Leone, Gambia, & Congo who meet the criteria are required to fill an online application.

Google for Startups Accelerator 2020 for Black Founders in the US

Deadline: June 30, 2020

Applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator for Black Founders 2020 are now open. The Google for Startups Accelerator for Black founders is a three-month digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in the U.S.

The accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google’s products, people and technology to Black founders across the U.S. In addition to mentorship and technical project support, the accelerator also includes workshops focused on machine learning, product design, customer acquisition and leadership development.

Eligibility

• Open to Black founders;
• They must be leading a high potential Seed to Series A tech startups based in the U.S.

Application

If you or someone you know would be a great fit for the Google for Startups Accelerator, encourage them to apply by June 30.

Click Here to apply: https://events.withgoogle.com/google-for-startups-accelerator-black-founders/

Nominations are open for the EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020!

EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020 for Initiatives and Projects Promoting Gender Equality

Is your work aimed at closing the gender digital divide? Nominations are now open for the EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020. They are looking for impressive, inspiring, and motivating initiatives from around the world.

Details:  https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/06/23/equals-in-tech-awards-2020/

The Awards are given every year to organizations and individuals working to help girls and women gain equal internet access, digital skills and opportunities in the tech industry.

We are celebrating the International Women in Engineering Day

International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED20) takes place on 23 June this year as usual.

We have compiled a short list of the most outstanding women engineers in the world. 

Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan engineer and Africa's richest woman. 

In 2013, according to Forbes, her net worth had exceeded US$2 billion making her Africa's first female US dollar billionaire.

Sofonie Dala is an Angolan engineer 

She will be the first woman to build a blended and e-learning platform for out of school women, girls and disabled children in Angola. 

Angola does not have any distance learning systems. As a result of covid-19 pandemic, the academic year in Angola was canceled. But Sofonie wrote a research paper about the implementation of e-learning schools in Angola last year before the emerge of coronavirus. 

Hedy Lamarr was an engineer 

• She devised a method of encrypting signals to prevent enemy spies listening to sensitive information, the underlying method of how we use Wi-Fi today.
• Without Hedy Lamarr, there would be no wireless communication in our modern world.

Watch this video 

​​International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry.

It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.

Background

National Women in Engineering Day was launched for the first time in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Since that launch in 2014 the day has grown enormously over the subsequent years to the point where it received UNESCO patronage in 2016. In 2017, National Women in Engineering Day became international for the first time due to the interest and enthusiasm developed by the international audience and participants in the previous years.

 

International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) was born to allow the celebration of women in engineering to become global. 

For 2018 we want to encourage all groups (Governmental, educational, corporate, Professional Engineering Institutions, individuals and other organisations) to organise their own events in support of the day, and link them together for maximum impact through the use of the INWED logo/campaign, corresponding website, and supporting resources.