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TECH Needs Girls
Words & Images: Sena Ahadji
“Word’s out that tech has an
image problem among girls
who think it might be boring,
geeky, uncreative and not
really helping anyone!”
- UN ITU Tech Needs
Girls
technology in Ghana. Enter
Tech Needs Girls Ghana
Chapter launched by Regina
and Rasheedah Yehuzah in
the tech hub of the Kwame
agency for information &
communication technologies
(ICT) to ensure that more girls
take an interest in technology.
For the longest time girls have
been allowed to believe
that innovation and
technology
were
for boys alone. At
Regina’s Tech Needs
Girls session, girls got
in on the action.
Ashesi
University
alumna who dreams of
being the first African
woman to build and
launch a rocket.
Meet Regina Agyare;
Ashesi
University
alumna who dreams
of being the first
African woman to
build and launch
a rocket. She is a
social entrepreneur
using technology to change
lives. After feeling unfulfilled
in an IT department at a top
international bank in Ghana,
she quit to follow her dream
of owning her own company.
Now the CEO of Soronko
Solutions and also a Fellow
at the Aspen Institute, Regina
is a young pioneer of change.
She develops applications
for disabled persons and
encourages girls and women
to become more interested in
Nkrumah
University
of
Science and Technology. On
a Saturday morning, the pair
and a a couple of volunteers
brought together a group of
intelligent and gifted young
women. The goal of the free
workshop was to encourage
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