The Women in Technology Uganda Launch was a true stamp that women in Uganda are tired of taking the back seat while men take full charge in the technology and information technology sector. It was nice to see that despite the heavy down pour and terrible traffic, many still made it to the Hive Colab without a worry about their hair getting wet. (LOL) A lot of great ideas were shared in an atmosphere that encouraged all the ladies to freely speak their minds.
Barbara Birungi shared WITU’s mission which is to empower women in technology and discussed a number of ways in which this would be done which included Annual ICT camps to empower young girls, high school drives to encourage the young girls to take up technology and ICT courses, hands-on workshops for lady programmers that will enable them to share and learn of new tools they can use, to mention but a few.