Year after year, the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival is a sell-out success story. This year, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ITU) and UN Women jointly organized a panel discussion on “why women in tech matters?” in the...
It’s women’s week {International Women’s Day}, and that means we have a lot to talk about. SXSW panel’s guest speakers Dr. Unoma Okorafor, Niamh Scanlon, Doreen Bogdan-Martin and William Hurley, will be tackling the most disturbing issue in tech industry. They will discuss the issue...
Women have become the embodiment of modern perception, as more and more women are becoming change agents in the world. The corporate world has recorded a huge shift in the working population and productivity of women in recent time, and so gender parity is taking...
THANK YOU At the beginning of every year, I get the opportunity to write this short heartfelt thank you for the previous year. This year is no different and there isn’t enough words that can aptly express how thankful we are at WAAW Foundation for our...
Dear WAAW Foundation Family, 2016 was another remarkable year for WAAW Foundation. This year, our vision became even clearer, and we moved purposefully towards achieving significant progress towards building a movement to empower women and girls across the African continent in STEM. We believe in the...
The Abuja edition of #SheHacksAfrica has come and gone but the memory and knowledge gained will forever linger in the minds of the participants that came from across Africa. In November 2016, Working to Advance STEM Education for African Women (WAAW) Foundation and African Women...
Gender inequality remains a burning issue confronting women and girls in Africa especially as it is linked with deep rooted traditional culture. Women face barriers such as poverty, illiteracy, and discrimination when getting training and education. With the increasing gender gap in technology and low rate...
Watch and listen to our President's speech at the 2016 GEM Tech Awards ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand. ...
We are so proud and excited to receive the 2016 GEM-Tech award. Three extraordinary organizations were announced on the 15th of November 2016 as winners of the 2016 GEM-TECH Awards at a ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand for their efforts to promote the empowerment of women and...
In October, our STEM chapter fellows in Makerere University,Uganda, University of Benin city, Nigeria and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana organized four College-to-secondary school STEM outreach and mentoring programs and impacted 235 secondary school girls. The overarching goal of this program is to...