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Projects

Browse through projects from around the world that are empowering girls and women with digital skills for life, work and leadership. These include projects empowering girls both inside and outside of school, professional development programmes for women, initiatives building teacher capacities, and policies, laws and plans aiming for structural change. 

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Shine the Light

This global campaign shines a light on women who are building and changing the internet through an online platform that profiles women's achievements.

Organizer

Internet Society

Si Jeunesse Savait - If Young Women Knew

This non-profit organization of young feminists in the Democratic Republic of Congo builds the leadership skills of young women in sexual and reproductive rights, ICT and entrepreneurship and engages in advocacy, research and policy dialogue.

Organizer

Si Jeunesse Savait ASBL

Simplon kids

This programme provides opportunities for girls and boys to learn how to code and engages them in awareness-raising activities to prevent gender bias in the tech sector.

Organizer

Simplon.co

SisTech project

This Kenyan provides training and job placements for out-of-school girls and women aged 17-24 residing in informal settlements.

Organizer

Nairobits Trust

Sisters of Code

Cambodia's first female coding club for girls aged 10-18 aims to build programming skills and self-efficacy, and empower girls for a successful digital future.

Organizer

IT Academy, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Development Innovations

Skills for the Future & Code Clubs

These clubs offer young girls and women aged 14-20 digital literacy education including coding as well as skills for future employment, entrepreneurship and business.

Organizer

Theirworld

Slum & Rural Innovation Project

This project delivers STEM, including arts/design, coding and other skills-building programmes for youth and women in lower-income groups of urban slums and rural communities to create changemakers that spark innovation and creativity.

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Dharavi Diary

Smart Sistas

This camp in Vanuatu for girls aged 9-14 includes ICT technical training, leadership and gender empowerment training and career exploration.

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Smart Sistas

Soronko Academy School of Technology and Innovation

This academy in Ghana offers trainings and curricula to children and women in programming, coding, web design and entrepreneurship along with personal and social skills development.

Organizer

Soronko Academy School of Technology and Innovation

Special Interest Group (SIG) Women

This special interest group of the Internet Society promotes a neutral space for projects, initiatives, and stakeholders that advocate for greater inclusion of women in tech and contribute to gender equality in the field.

Organizer

Internet Society

Spiegelbeeld - Mirror Image

This role model database of more than 2,000 female professionals and students working n tech and engineering supports access to role models for mentoring, work shadowing and awareness-raising activities.

Organizer

VHTO (National expert organisation on girls/women and science/technology)

Springboard

This 4-month paid internship provides women wishing to return to the workforce the opportunity to strengthen their technical skills, explore new career paths, and to join Microsoft following the internship, based on performance and available posts.

Organizer

Microsoft India

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