by Oreoluwa | Feb 11, 2020 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
I learnt a song when I was younger and the chorus rang “It’s a small world after all…” I can’t remember any of the other words. These lyrics came back to me when I visited Port Elizabeth in South Africa, as part of a study visit for the...
by Oreoluwa | Nov 22, 2019 | Career, STEM-Technology
By Oreoluwa Lesi I think it’s important to continually expand and deepen one’s field of knowledge. And being a social entrepreneur for the last dozen odd years, means that I have sought out books, articles, podcasts, interviews and other opportunities to...
by Oreoluwa | May 9, 2019 | STEM-Technology
On April 25, 2019, W.TEC Executive Director, Oreoluwa Lesi, organised and participated in a session at the recently-concluded Digital Rights Inclusion Forum 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria called “Internet Governance: Multi-stakeholderism and Participation in the...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 15, 2019 | STEM-Technology
The 64th ICANN public meeting took place in Kobe, Japan from March 8 to 14, 2019 and I had the honour of being able to participate in it. It was only my 3rd ICANN public meeting, but a far cry from my first (ICANN 61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), where I was lost and...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 3, 2019 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
There are some fantastic resources out now for people interested in gender and the intersection of gender and technology. Here are a few recently published reports: 1.) Report from Plan International “Girls Challenging the Gender Rules”:...
by Oreoluwa | Mar 22, 2019 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
Introduction: The themes of this year’s International Women’s Day were “Balance for better” and “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”. Both are fitting when we examine the issue of gender equality in Science, Technology and Engineering, because there...
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