[At-Large] Sunday March 8 is International Womens Day - the Internet Society is celebrating Women in Tech

[Joly MacFie]

Yep set my clock at little too far forward.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> *Saturday* March 8 is International Women's Day.
>
> Not Sunday.
>
> Adam
>
>
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> On Mar 8, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> > If you are interested in this topic, please view our recent
> > video<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6300>,
> > and take particular note of the many resources available via the National
> > Center for Women & Information Technology <http://www.ncwit.org/>
> >
> >   joly posted: "This Sunday, March 8 2014, is International Women's Day
> > and this year's theme is "Equality for women is progress for all". To
> mark
> > the occasion Internet Society President & CEO Kathy Brown, and Trustees
> > Desiree Miloshevic, Theresa Swinehart and Narell"
> >
> >  [image: International Women's Day]This Sunday, March 8 2014, is
> International
> > Women's Day <http://www.internationalwomensday.com/> and this year's
> theme
> > is "*Equality for women is progress for all*". To mark the occasion
> > Internet Society President & CEO *Kathy Brown*, and Trustees *Desiree
> > Miloshevic*, *Theresa Swinehart* and *Narelle Clark*, have posted Weaving
> > Women of the World into the Global Tapestry of Modern Digital
> > Life<http://www.internetsociety.org/node/191121>an article around the
> > importance of women in ICT. The article highlights
> > several initiatives across the ISOC community that support women
> interested
> > in technology careers and bring Internet access and training to women
> > around the world.
> >
> > Here at ISOC-NY we actively support local organizations who actively
> > recruit girls into computer science, such as the New York City Foundation
> > for Computer Science Education <http://csnyc.org/> (CSNYC) and Girls Who
> > Code <http://girlswhocode.com/>. We have also lent international
> assistance
> > to the ITU's Tech Needs Girls <http://www.techneedsgirls.org/> campaign.
> >
> > If you have a story about, or would like to pay tribute to, women in
> tech -
> > the Internet Society has an open call for related anecdotes, links, media
> > etc at Inspiring Change: Celebrating Achievements of Women in
> > Tech<
> http://www.internetsociety.org/inspiring-change-celebrating-achievements-women-tech
> >
> >
> > Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6373#respond>    See all
> > comments<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6373#comments>
> >
> >
> > *Permalink*
> > http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6373
> >
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