The Vodafone Americas Foundation announces its Wireless Innovation Challenge, a new competition that seeks to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social issues around the world. Learn more!
If you live near Florida, check out the "TechLeaders for Social Innovators" workshop at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on October 17.
Speakers include:
Our own, Marnie Webb, Co-CEO, TechSoup
Bernadine Dias, Founder and Director, TechBridge World; Research Faculty, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder and Owner, Kiva.org
Jensine Larsen, Founder, WorldPulse Magazine
Anuradha Vittachi, Co-Founder, OneWorld Network and Co-Director, OneWorld UK
Mari Kurashi, President, Global Giving Foundation and co-Founder, Global Giving.
You can read more about their work in the article, "How does technology improve the lives of women and their communities" by Caroline Simard, and register for the workshop here.
I hope a podcast will be available!
Image from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing Site.