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

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Sat Mar 8 04:13:32 UTC 2014


*Saturday* March 8 is International Women's Day.

Not Sunday.

Adam



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>
> 
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