Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

GEEK GIRLS LATAM


Description

Geek Girls is a community of women and men seeking to promote inspiration and empowerment to women of all ages as change actors in the use, appropiation and creation of technology. With 5 strategic units of action; 1. Inspiring through powerful conversations - #GGtalks, 2. Empowering women, teenagers and girls with soft and hard skills in stem, 3. connecting wills and oppportunities through social and working networks, 4. Leading opinion by monitoring media and actively participating in women events and talks and 5. by promoting tech creation of products and events (hackatons, startups days, tech kits, etc)

Project website

http://geekgirlslatam.org


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2019
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C6. Enabling environment
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Coverage
  • Colombia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2017

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Women

WSIS values promotion

Geek Girls is a community of women and men seeking to promote inspiration and empowerment to women of all ages as change actors in the use, appropiation and creation of technology.


Entity name

GEEK GIRLS LATAM

Entity country—type

Colombia Civil Society

Entity website

http://geekgirlslatam.org