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WITU MarchMeet, Improve a woman’s life, give her an App Apps built by women for women

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Women in technology Uganda

Theme: Improve a woman’s life, give her an App Apps built by women for women

Date: 16th March

Venue: Mara Foundation Launchpad, Opp Makerere University Main Gate at Tusky’s building, 4thFloor

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

March is a women’s month so we want to focus on what technology can do for a woman, how we can use tech to improve a woman’s life, take a stand build an app that will transform a woman’s life today. It could a health issue that this app tries to solve, change a woman’s life today by enabling her through mobile apps, and enable a woman by a simple tap on her phone. Women are the underutilized assets we posses in Uganda, Let us get things done and not wait on others to come solve our problems. How can you assist a rural woman today, a business woman that is not skilled in Tech, whatever issues you can think of that can aid a woman’s life and improve it? Come for our meet this Friday 16th and lets think together. The winning app will WIN a PRIZE! Let us support our fellow women this month by providing them with something we are good at, Tech! Come with a another lady! Lets build together

please register here for your ticket. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2992720307

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Welcome to Women in Technology Uganda

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There is a huge gender technological gap in the Africa, Women though more than men, hold very few positions in high tech positions and very few have the desire to join the feild,
this being reinforced by society, Women remain in the shadows of men when it comes to Tech, WITU is a forum focused on finding real solutions to the long-standing problems of how to attract,
retain and advance more women in the IT industry. Inspiring, leading and influencing the action to increase the number of women in IT
We believe that every woman has the potential to become anything she aspires to be, at WITU we encourage, inspire and lead each other through teaching, partnerships, networking and mentoring.

Women in technology Uganda is an initiative that seeks to encourage, inspire and train more women in the tech field through networking, training, mentoring and partnering so as to increase the number of women in tech, the number of tech women entrepreneurs and more girls to take science courses at university so as to reduce the gender gap and compete favorably with our male counterparts for jobs and improve the livelihoods of women in Uganda