[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...
W.TEC Marks Women & Girls in Science Day with Lafarge Africa PLC
[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...
W.TEC MentorHER Webinar Series Part 3 Features Ommo Clark
[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,...
W.TEC – 21st Century Skills and Recognition with Open Badges
[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:...
W.TEC's New Staying Safe Online Initiative for Women & Girls
[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...
W.TEC MentorHER – Webinar Part 2
[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...
Yewande Sadiku is W.TEC's #WCW
[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...
W.TEC MENTORHER 2020 HOLDS FIRST WEBINAR
[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...
W.TEC 16 Days of Activism 2020 Campaign
[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...
W.TEC Academy Trains Girls Solar Technology in Ogun State
[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...
W.TEC Participates in 2020 GivingTuesday
[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....
Kiki Mordi is W.TEC's #WCW
[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...
W.TEC Academy Goes Green in Ogun State
[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...
W.TEC Academy Gears Up In Ogun State
[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...
W.TEC Inaugurates MentorHER 2020 – 2021
[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...
W.TEC's – Black Tuesday Message
[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....
The #EndSARS Movement By W.TEC
[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...
Aisha Yesufu is our WCW for this Week
[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...
An Afternoon of Knowledge Exchange Awaits!
[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...
Nengi Hampson is our #WCW for this Week
[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...
W.TEC Presents Reboot (Postponed to 2021)
[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...
W.TEC Alumnae Reunion
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W.TEC Selected as WSIS 2020 Champion
[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...
Meet Our New Girls Advisory Council
[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...
More About She Creates 2020
[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....
The Tech Woman & Work
[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...
Girls & Technology Factsheet
[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...
Covid transforming offline into online – W.TEC DGY Project
[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...
Digital Open Badges & W.TEC Programmes
In 2019, W.TEC joined the Digital Generation Youth (DGY) project, which is aimed at developing new content, methods and activities to improve the quality of youth non-formal learning programmes. Through this project, organisations that work with young people in...
W.TEC Holds its first Virtual Camp for Kids – Early Innovators Camp
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Press Release: Lagos, Nigeria – 10th August, 2020: The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre - W.TEC recently held her first virtual camp that teaches girls and boys technology in a fun way and utilizes a hands-on and project-based...