PRESS RELEASE The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre. 2 Babalola Gardens, off Freedom Way, Ikate - Lekki, Lagos. Tuesday February 16th 2021. W.TEC Announces the Return of W.TEC Academy to lagosW.TEC is excited to announce the return of her...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press release The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre. 2 Babalola Gardens, off Freedom Way, Ikate - Lekki, Lagos. Tuesday February 16th 2021. W.TEC Announces the Appointment of New Advisory board Members The Women’s Technology...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]W.TEC’s Advisory Board serves as a critical community champion for the organisation. Members of the Advisory Board share their gifts in service to W.TEC’s mission by providing the organization with their professional expertise; their...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press release Friday February 12th 2021 The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) collaborated with Lafarge Africa PLC to mark 2021 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday February 11th with a virtual...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Proper and adequate guidance when choosing a career path has saved individuals from making wrong decisions or going into a professional sectors without essential information. As a means to propagate the career opportunities in STEM,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On behalf of the partners of the international project Digital Generation Youth we are glad to invite you to participate in the international online training course ‘21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND RECOGNITION WITH OPEN BADGES’. Objectives:...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC in 2020 supported the annual ‘’16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women’’ with a new campaign format which this time will be a continuous programme for W.TEC to put staying safe online on the front-burner. In the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women's Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC) via her MentorHer Programme held a webinar to help to further enlighten Mentees and other interested individuals. The December edition webinar was themed: Personal Development as a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our WCW this week is Yewande Sadiku, she is a distinguished investment banker from Nigeria and a Public Servant. She was appointed Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre(W.TEC) MentorHer programme2020 held her first monthly webinar for new set of Mentees on Thursday, November 19, 2020 which was centered on the topic: "THE CREATIVE ME - HOW TO DEVELOP THE...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The annual global campaign - “16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women” is here again. Slated for (November 25 – December 10) is set aside to create a sustained awareness for the fight against gender based violence. The 16...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) recently held the graduation ceremony for participants of her after school computer training programme for girls – W.TEC Academy in Ogun state. This phase of training involved 100...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC has some big news for you! As the season of giving approaches we are are glad to announce that we will be participating in the global day of giving – Giving Tuesday to accept donations for our 2021 STEM programmes for girls....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW for this week is one of our extraordinary women who are changing the face of accountability and justice for the average Nigerian. She is no other person but Kiki Mordi whom we will all remember from her work on exposing our...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC’s Academy makes a quick return to train our Ogun state participants at Ilaro and Joga-Orile the art of harnessing renewable energy using improvised electronics. The quick training is due to constraints from recent COVID19...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) Girls Academy is gearing up to resume in Ogun state as staff of the organization are currently taking the facilitators through a programme called "Train the Trainer". The...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (WTEC) recently held the inauguration for her MentorHER 2020 – 2021 pogramme which is slated for 6 months is featuring and Mentees majorly from across Nigeria and Mentors from all over...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) condemns in strong terms the violence against the peaceful #EndSARS - protesters across Nigeria and especially at the Lagos - Lekki Toll Gate last night, Tuesday October 20th, 2020....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “The youth are the future” is a common saying. Over the last week, we have realised that the youth are NOW! Years of systemic police brutality has exploded into the #EndSARS protests. Since last week, thousands of young people...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our #WCW this week is a woman who needs no introduction. Aisha Yesufu (born 1974) is a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Another afternoon of knowledge exchange awaits! Two organisations leading their countries towards a future of gender equality in tech Women Go Tech 🇱🇹 and W-tec Nigeria 🇳🇬 will get together to talk about how the global tech gender...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nigeria’s latest TV reality star, Rebecca Ayibanengimote Hampson a.k.a Nengi is our #WCW for this week. This amazing lady has warmed the hearts of so many Nigerians from the recently concluded #BigBrotherNaija season 5 reality...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Postponed to 2021! In sensitivity with the #Endsars struggle this programme has been postponed to 2021. More details on new schedules will be made available in earnest. In the meantime we sincerely apologize for any inconveniences...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] W.TEC is pleased to have been selected as a 2020 WSIS Champion in Category 3 (Access to Information and Knowledge). The WSIS Prizes contest was developed in response to requests from the WSIS (World Summit on the Information...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The W.TEC Girls Advisory Council comprises of a group of select girls (alumnae of W.TEC programmes) nominated to work as an advisory group to partner with W.TEC staff members on activities ranging from programme development to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our first virtual camp for girls tagged She Creates Next has come and gone. This was the 13th edition of W.TEC’s She Creates programme – a summer tech camp programme for girls which has inspired a new generation of tech savvy women....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lagos, Nigeria – 1st September, 2020: W.TEC in making a case for more women in technology embarked on fact finding exercise to pool research findings facts to support the subject. Eventually a factsheet has been drawn up which...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This factsheet depicts why we need more girls in Technology and related fields. A UNESCO report titled “Cracking the Code: Girls and Women in STEM”, highlights the fact that there are not enough girls in school and amongst the girls...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Digital Generation Youth project consortium members from Nigeria, South Africa, Lithuania and The Netherlands gathered for an open online webinar. This time the concept of maker space was at the core of this webinar. Maker Spaces...