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.
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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