W.TEC Make Her Space Team Kwara during their Graduation Ceremony at Ilorin Kwara State.
The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is a non-profit organization that provides technology education for women and girls in Nigeria.[1][2] W.TEC offers services and programs including mentoring, training, technology camps, awareness campaigns, collaborative projects, and research and publication to empower women.[3][4]
W.TEC's work includes technology-training programmes for girls through intensive girls-only camps and technology clubs in W.TEC academy.[8] During the camps and after-school clubs, the girls learn to create and innovate with technology by building and making websites, web applications, video games, films, and other digital content.[9] In the words of Adeola Akinyemiju, the Finance Director, W.TEC "is training girls on electronic and digital circuit technologies, web designs to bridge the gender gap in the engineering space."[10][11] The organisation advocates against and works to break down gender stereotypes, especially with respect to careers.[12] In 2024 the reach out the Physically - challenged people and trained the on tech.[13]
In March 2019, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, visited W.TEC as part of a worldwide tour in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Web.[15][16] During his visit, he spoke about the "Contract for the Web". He later remarked that his audience, largely composed of young girls, had "wonderful energy and creativity".[17] In 2020, Time magazine asked Tim Berners-Lee to write to a young person or group of young people of his own choosing. He chose the girls of W.TEC.[18]
International Telecommunication Union (ITU): Gender Equality Mainstreaming – Technology (GEM-TECH) Award (finalist; Category 5: Closing the ICT Gender Gap; 2014)[20]
↑ "WSIS Prizes 2020". International Telecommunication Union. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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