[afnog] African women and the Internet

[Hervey Allen]

On 11/10/11 4:18 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 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 information on the web were outdated.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.
> 
> this is something nsrc should be able to make more visible for you if
> you can find the trails.  i am sure hervey is seeing this and is
> thinking "send links."
> 

I have had my eye on both of these...

I'm guessing that the domain that is most interesting (and not gobbled
up yet) is afchix.org.

Thank you Nancy for the note about placing information on afnog.org
about the AfNOG Chix workshop in Malawi. If there was a workshop web
site if someone wants to contact me off-list I can assist with that.

Cheers,
	- Hervey
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