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iSpace Foundation: Unlocking Potential : Technology & Women Empowerment

Comic Relief awarded a grant of GBP 552,097 to iSpace Foundation for work in Ghana, dated 13 May 2016.

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Key Information
Awarded by
Comic Relief
Location
Ghana
Status
Awarded
Category
Grant
Award Amount
GBP 552,097
Reference
360G-CR-1914456
Procurement Method
Grant
Language
English
Awarded to
iSpace Foundation
Decision Date
May 13, 2016
Contract Start
Jun 1, 2016
Contract End
Dec 23, 2019

Overview

African women are missing in the technological and digital space. Efforts to address this have focused on short-term needs rather than building technological capacity and knowledge. Women need to be encouraged to use digital technology tools to develop everyday solutions to the problems they and their peers face. In so doing iSpace Ghana aims to increase the number of women with IT skills and the number that are able to build a career in technology either as an expert programmer or coder or as founders of technology related start-ups. This will be achieved by supporting a cohort of women to access a coding Bootcamp, followed by an accelerator programme for those who develop viable ideas for

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