[afnog] African women and the Internet

[Omo Oaiya]

Domestication of AfNOG in Nigeria and Ghana (that I know of) has had
significant impact in these places and this is undoubtedly the path to
broader capacity building.  These folks had a model they could associate
with and evolve from.

At a recent software freedom day celebration,  young women keen on gender
sensitive activity inquired about mentors and models. LinuxChix Africa came
to mind but the only links we could find to more information on the web
were outdated.  africalinuxchix.org is parked and parent
linuxchix.orgwonders if Linuxchix Africa is gone.

I know there was a workshop in Malawi recently and Randy refers to more
below so perhaps we did not know where to look.  Any pointers to
information that can be shared is what I am after.

Many thanks


On 9 November 2011 13:15, Jounewe Aline Flore <fkoumessi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What exactely are you looking for in term of effort arround Africa?
>
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>   *From:* Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com>
> *To:* kodion at gmail.com
> *Cc:* Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>; Lexa Phalula <Lexa.Phalula at mtl.mw>;
> CTIP Secretariat <info at ctip.unilag.edu.ng>; AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 9, 2011 10:11 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [afnog] African women and the Internet
>
>  Thanks Randy and Marie-Paule!
> On Nov 8, 2011 5:16 AM, "Omo Oaiya" <kodion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice to hear. I am sure there are groups of young women across Africa who
> would love to connect to these activities or at least look to tailor local
> efforts on models that have been successful
>
> Could Marie-paule or anyone else who knows kindly summarize these efforts
> or point at where to get more information?
>
> Omo
> ------Original Message------
> From: Randy Bush
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> To: Lexa Phalula
> Cc: AFNOG
> Subject: Re: [afnog] (no subject)
> Sent: Nov 8, 2011 12:51 PM
>
> what is amazing is what african women are doing for the internet.
>
> last month, marie-paule attended the nanog women's lunch, the american
> group of women who meet for luch at meetings to discuss the issues women
> have in the industry.  she told of what african women were doing, linux
> chix, workshops, ... REAL WORK, and the americans were amazed and a bit
> embarrassed.
>
> randy
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