C.L.E (Cours en Ligne à l’Ecole)

CLE is a project that aims to revitalise the educational system in the middle-secondary by encouraging the use of ICT in trainings and apprenticeship. The project focuses on setting up a distance learning system. This System set up by the Association of Support to Science and ICT (AASTIC) and intended for teaching / learning activities […]

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Solar Powered Internet Kiosk

Solar Powered Internet Kiosk is aimed at empowering Nigerian Youths through Internet access in rural areas; even those that have no access to electricity from the main power grid. The Kiosk is a completely self-contained and self-service solution for providing access to computers and the internet. It is a project that is working to bring […]

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Community Networks as a Social Program

Colnodo provides communications services to Colombian and regional organizations to facilitate the sharing of information and experiences at the local, national and international levels using low-cost networks. Through its strategic programs, the organization has prioritized issues such as human rights, the improvement of conditions for women, governance, democracy and citizen participation, sustainable development, the democratization […]

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Community Providers in Brazil

The great challenge for humanity —a challenge that involves governments, private actors, academia, civil society and society in general— is to connect the next billion individuals to the Internet, those whose access has been identified as a fundamental right, essential for the realization of their freedom of expression, association, access to information and other economic, […]

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Mobile Lab for Developing STEM Skills Among Students and Graduates with a Degree in Childhood Education from Universidad del Magdalena

GINFED, the Spanish acronym used to refer to the research group working on the use of computer technologies for education, is planning to create a STEM lab for training students and women who have obtained their bachelor’s degree in Childhood Education from Universidad del Magdalena on the use of robotics applications (Scratch Jr, Scratch, and […]

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Promoting Careers in ICT Among Secondary School Teenagers in Uruguay

By articulating outreach and teaching activities, female teachers and students of the Institutes of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering at Universidad de la República have developed an initiative to bring aspects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) closer to female secondary school students with the aim of encouraging them to pursue training in this area. […]

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Editatona, Bridging the Gender Divide in Wikipedia

Editatona, a women’s editathon, was born at the end of 2014 with the aim of reducing the gender divide in Wikipedia. As many other technological projects, the online encyclopedia suffers from an unacceptable gender divide which is reflected in the number of collaborators (only 1 out of 10 wikipedians is a woman) as well as […]

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Acoso.Online: Technologies to Combat Non-Consensual Pornography

Acoso.Online is the first Latin American website for victims of non-consensual pornography. It provides straightforward guidelines on how to deal with the platforms involved, as well as with the legal, judicial, organizational and security challenges related to this type of violence against women and LGBTQI individuals. In June 2017, Acoso.Online was the first website launched […]

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Atalaya Sur. An Experience in Community Connectivity and Popular Appropriation of Technology

Since 2014, Atalaya Sur has been developing a proposal for the popular appropriation of technology in Villa 20 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), for which the association has been addressing three lines of work: the fight for the Internet as a right, the democratization of the production of content and discourse, and the promotion of technological vocations […]

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Mobile Solar Labs

Mobile Solar Lab is a mobile solar-powered hub that is made of canvas tents and fitted with computers with internet access that are powered by a solar panel. This project aims to reach out to girls in 6 (Kapolowe; Samuanda; Luambo; Masuika; Kamako; Luiza) rural marginalized villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here rural […]

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