Hi Binta and Beran<div><br></div><div>Yes i think it will be nice to participate. It comes with good experience. Seems Suun Faye here on this list is among those cordinating Girls in ICT celebration every year. i think Amie Njie (ISOC Gambia treasurer) is also working on a plan for this Women SIG event. </div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps if the two collaborate and get your team support it could be a successful event week.</div><div><br></div><div>Its Girls in ICT day! and i would report i was impressed and inspired with the one i was futurnate to attend last year, presence of Auntie Anna, Isatou Jah, Fatim Badjie and many other great female ICT minds in the Gambia.</div><div><br></div><div>So, Cheers to this year's. Happy Girls in ICT Day in advance</div><div><br></div><div>Alagie </div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div text="#000000" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-size:16.5px"><table name="HLMsgOuter" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><table width="100%" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">the Girls in ICT Day</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div text="#000000" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-size:16.5px"><table name="HLMsgOuter" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><table width="100%" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Friday, April 6, 2018, Beran Dondeh <<a href="mailto:berandondeh@gmail.com">berandondeh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This is interesting and something I would definitely be interested in and something GamChix should look at for sure <div><br></div><div>Beran <br><br><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 5 Apr 2018, at 14:11, Alagie Ceesay <<a href="mailto:aceesay84@gmail.com" target="_blank">aceesay84@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;padding:0;margin:0;font-size:110%" text="#000000">
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<div><div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">Dear Chapter Leaders,</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">I'm sending this message to you on behalf of the ISOC Women Special Interest Group (). </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">Please take action and help bring more Women and Girls in the ICTs and Internet field.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">Thank you.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">Best regards,</span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:Hind">Victor.</span></p></div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Hind"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">At the Women's Special Interest Group of the Internet Society and in coordination with Wikimedia Foundation, we are organizing the 1st Global Editathon "Girls in ICT" on April 28 on the occasion of the Girls in
ICT Day (which is on April 26).</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">We want to create content written by women and about women on the Girls in ICT Day, mainly to make women in technology more visible and to inspire girls to pursue STEM careers. On that day, we will edit the biographies of women: founding, pioneers, entrepreneurs, developers, and leaders in technology from each region.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">What is an Editathon? "An editathon is a marathon in
which we edit, create and improve Wikipedia articles with reliable and verifiable sources on a specific subject. We also upload to Wikimedia Commons images related to it, to build together the complete story of the event. It is a participatory activity that adds a face-to-face dimension to the online task of volunteer editors and editors who, in addition to bringing socialization to the community, makes it more visible to the public."<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona:feminismos" title="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona:feminismos" target="_blank"></a></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona:feminismos" title="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona:feminismos" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona<wbr>:feminismos </span><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">We are looking for support to organize nodes of edition within the ISOC Chapters.</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Is your Chapter interested? This is what you need:</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-Availability to organize the local node on April 28, 2018 (note that the Girls in ICT Day in on April 26, but in order to facilitate the organization of the editathon, we plan to do the event on April 28. Each node can decide the time).</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-A place where the participants can bring their laptops: it can be a school, a university, a cultural or community center in your country etc.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-Internet connection.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-Develop a list of women: founding, pioneers, entrepreneurs, developers, and leaders, of whom we will create or edit their biography in Wikipedia.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-Share the invitation with your chapter members and promote the participation of women and girls in the editathon. </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">-Send us your information to the mail:<span> </span><a href="mailto:sigwomenisoc@gmail.com" title="mailto:sigwomenisoc@gmail.com" target="_blank">sigwomenisoc@gmail.com</a><span> </span>n<wbr>o later than<span> </span><b>Monday, April 9.</b></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">In addition, we are planning to have a "Wikipedia edition" webinar a week before the event. </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">If you have any questions or doubts, feel free to contact us:<span> </span><a href="mailto:sigwomenisoc@gmail.com" title="mailto:sigwomenisoc@gmail.com" target="_blank">sigwomenisoc@gmail.com</a> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Join us to make more women visible on Wikipedia!</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">ISOC Women SIG</span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p></div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Hind">Sent by</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Victor Ndonnang</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chapter Development Manager, Africa</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Internet Society</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The
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