The maiden version of the Ghana Girls In Tech (GLIT) summit and awards has honoured a number of girls in expertise for his or her function within the male-dominated business.
The awards, which seeks to recognise and have fun feminine entrepreneurs and innovators throughout the nation, is the initiative of Ghana Tech Lab and a bunch of different companions such because the Communication Ministry, MasterCard Basis and many others.
In her welcome deal with, the Nationwide Coordinator for GLIT, Belinda Darkwa defined that her organisation organises counseling periods, trainings and workshops in areas key to the event within the Tech area. She added that the award ceremony is to crown all of their nationwide actions.
Girls from throughout the nation made presentation on the newest improvements. YisonTech Hub got here out as winners of the GLIT neighborhood pitch with their ‘Mentor Me’ progressive app which is able to search to information particularly younger women who would use the app and by so doing serving to them with nice alternatives.
Award winners
Most Skillful Shepreneur of the 12 months – Paulette Watson of STEM Academy Achievers. Her #BeMe Challenge goals to boost 1 million black women’ aspirations in Science Expertise Engineering Arithmetic (STEM) careers.
{Hardware} Engineer of the 12 months – Belinda Akaba of Photo voltaic Taxi. She is a feminine engineer with blazing experience within the {hardware} engineering discipline successfully over the previous two years.
Finest Media Home – Supporting Feminine Entrepreneurship – Digital Instances Africa
Girls Empowerment Hub of the 12 months – Soronko Academy
Finest Femtech Programme of the 12 months – Nationwide Feminine Pre-Tech Coaching
FemTech Mentor of the 12 months – Regina Honu of Soronko Academy
Catering Entrepreneur of the 12 months – Felicia Asiamah of Fellys Meals and Rental
GLiT Coordinator of the 12 months – Juliana of Yison Tech Hub in Higher West Area
Corporatepreneur of the 12 months – Felicia Asiamah additionally of Common Service provider Financial institution
FemTech Persona of the 12 months – Mariam Kaleem, Head of Digital Advertising at LetShego
Finest GLiT Group of the 12 months – Yison Tech Hub in Higher West Area
