Last month Amanda Smith, formerly ODI Community Engagement Manager and now ODI Account Manager, won the Bloomberg Open Technology Award, a WISE Award for female role models making a difference in open source communities Amanda on stage with HRH The…
Last month Amanda Smith, formerly ODI Community Engagement Manager and now ODI Account Manager, won the Bloomberg Open Technology Award, a WISE Award for female role models making a difference in open source communities Amanda on stage with HRH The…
The National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) just released its most recent analysis of preliminary U.S. Census data. The snapshot it provides on the state of women-owned businesses shows definitive growth. In a teleconference, NWBC’s chairwoman Carla Harris outlined the highlights.…
This September, world leaders will ratify the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an agenda to “transform our world” by 2030. After months of wrangling, the final SDGs text, which will go to the UN General Assembly for ratification, has just…
This post was originally published on the Trafford Innovation and Intelligence Lab blog. In July 2015 we held our first open data surgery. We met a lot of groups and were able to talk to them about the sorts of…
On May 23, 2015, hackers from 19 countries gathered online and in person for Femhack, a grassroots international feminist hackathon inspired by the life and work of Sabeen Mahmud. Passionate about civic technology, Mahmud started Pakistan’s first hackathon. Her efforts were not without controversy,…
Did you know Rwanda, a country that is emerging from one the worst genocides in human history, has around 64% women MPs in their national Parliament? In fact, Rwanda and Bolivia are the only countries in the world where women…