Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2018 Nominee

Cracking the code for girls and youth in STEM


Description

Hack4Girl:
As we are trying to improve the number of girl in STEM, the Hack4Girl included a set of activities that aims to attract and retain Girls in STEM education and professional career and well as entrepreneurship.
To this aims we do have
- Girl’s initiation to coding session, our goal for the digital journey
of equal opportunities.
- job forum, experience sharing on how to seek a first employement
- Mentoring programs for 6 to 9 Months .

Hack4Afrik
Cracking the code for Africa is the mission of young developers.A hackathon is an event where developers come together to do collaborative computer programming. The term is made up of hack and marathon with the goal of producing a prototype application within hours. At the end of the competition, the winning team will be appointed by a Jury.

Project website

http://www.coalition-digitale.com


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development 2018
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality

Coverage
  • Cameroon
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Germany
  • Luxembourg

Status

Completed

Start date

21 October 2012

End date

31 December 2020


Entity name

Digital Coalition

Entity country—type

Cameroon Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.coalition-digitale.org

Partners

Unesco - in France, Cameroon and Gabon African Union - Center for girls (CIEFFA) - Addis Ababa ITU African Institute of Technologies (IAI) - Yaoundé Cameroon Faculté de Génie Industriel (FGI) - Douala Cameroon University of Yaoundé 1 - Cameroon Engagement Global - Germany INWES Europe Metropole Bordeaux - France GICAM - Groupement interpatronal du Cameroon MICROSOFT MTN Camtel Media Partners (Africa 24, Canal 2, etc...) French Embassy in Cameroon Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie Unicef