EAC Region Women Online Safety Hackathon

Women Techmakers East Africa are coming together to create an Online Safety Hackathon on the 20th - 21st August 2020 Our aim is to to acknowldge, celebrate and challange women in Tech.

Aug 20, 2021, 2:00 PM – Aug 21, 2021, 11:00 AM

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DataEnterprise/Business SolutionsInclusionWomen Techmakers

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.

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

Hackathon participants will focus on a localized problem statement. Participants, in teams, will be tasked with scoping and pitching a product solution.

High Level Goals:

1. Produce innovative product ideas and MVPs to reduce violence against women online

2. Demonstrate the power of a grassroots approach to addressing huge issues facing tech + society through regional and global campaigns

3. Tell a story about the power of technologists coming together to address online violence

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Developers, designers, and all women who are ready to find solutions with their creative ideas!

We are here with a #hackathon event for women!

I AM IN! How can I proceed?

We, as WomenTechmakers and Google Developers chapters in East Africa, we came together with an online Hackathon to find solutions to these attacks that women encounter.

You can reserve your place in Hackathon, which will take place on 20th and 21st of August to have a chance to work on and evaluate your idea with other participants across the region accompanied by mentors, video conferences, and a jury.

Come prepare to Collaborate, Ideate, Create and Innovate solutions that will help stop Online Violence against women.

When

When

August 20 – 21, 2021
2:00 PM – 11:00 AM UTC

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Organizer

  • Margaret Nanyombi

    GDG Entebbe

    GDG Organizer

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