WTM Nigeria Women Online Safety Hackathon

The Women’s Safety Hackathon invites women and allies to create technical solutions using Google products to the problem of violence against women online.

Aug 14, 2021, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

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About this event

Two out of five women get harassed daily online; In our effort to use technology to solve these problems, we are hosting a region-wide hackathon to provide a platform to identify solutions to online harassment of women and girls. In partnership with JIGSAW: a unit within Google whose mission is to create a safer internet for a better world.

This hackathon is open to all women - Software Engineers, Product Designers, Data scientists, Gender Specialists, Product Managers, Data Analysts, e.t.c. Over 100 innovators will take on the problem statement and provide innovative solutions that address women’s safety online across the globe.

Speakers

  • Abiodun Essiet

    Africa Young Female Advisers Initiative

    Founder

  • Rana Abdelhamid

    Google

    Global Marketing and Partnership Lead

Judges

  • Ire Adenirokun

    BuyCoins

    Co-Founder, COO, VP Engineering

  • Jessica Mandanda

    International Youth Alliance for Family Planning - Malawi.

    Country Director

  • Onajite Emerhor

    Google

    Head, Google for Startups Accelerator Africa & WomenTechmakers SSA

Partners

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ThePeer

Organizers

  • Elizabeth Agada

    GDG Organizer

  • Motunrayo Olasupo

    GDG Organizer

  • Fidelis Okafor

    GDG Organizer

  • Abdulmalik Ango

    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

    Co-Organizer

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