Nextgen Girls in technology becomes WSIS Prize 2020 - ITU Champion!

  Nextgen Girls in technology becomes WSIS Prize 2020 - ITU Champion! 

 The Award Recognises activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development. It is given by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) #GirlsInTechnogy 

#NextGen #internetsociety #isoc #isoclk #ideamart

The High-level Dialogue: 15 Years of the Implementation of WSIS-ITU

It was a grate honer be a speaker at WSIS High-level Dialogue: 15 Years of the Implementation of WSIS, among some distinguished personalities of the world.

I expressed my ideas on how we need to strengthen girls ICT education while ensuring Inclusion, equality, localisation,  empowerment, innovation and most importantly creating global partnerships to achieve 2030 agenda

More i
nformation: https://lnkd.in/gNWjrHt

Speaking at SIGGRAPH 2020 on Bringing Diversity and Inclusion to Creative Education In Sri Lanka

I'll Be Speaking at SIGGRAPH 2020. SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest and most highly respected conferences on computer graphics, and I'm honoured that I get to be a part of it. Speaking I will be speaking about our work with TakingITGlobal, Adobe and bringing diversity and inclusion to Sri Lankan creative education and industry.
You're all invited to join the session https://s2020.siggraph.org/conference/program-events/organization-events/diversity-and-inclusion-summit/ #siggraph2020 #Diversity #Inclusion #ShilpaSayura

WSIS Regional Review 2020 - United Nations ESCAP and ITU

It was an honour to speak at WSIS Regional Review 2020 Hosted by United Nations ESCAP and ITU (International Telecommunication Union).

On the topic of Asian Woman and Girls in Post COVID19 Society and NextGen IoTs Contribution.

#ShilpaSayura #GirlsInTech #WSIS #Nextgen #Asia

Online Student Coding Championship and online IoT Hackathon

We successfully held our scratch Student Coding Championship and Nextgen IoT Hackathon completely online. This was a great milestone for the Nextgen Girls in Technology team. 

113 school students participated in the Student Coding Championship and 90+ participated in the Award ceremony. 19 university teams from around Srilanka competed in Nextgen IoT Hackathon and more 

than 100 participated Nextgen IoT Hackathon Award ceremony

 

Voices of the Sea documentary short selected for "Community Films and Exploring Creativity Summit"

Voices of the Sea documentary short directed by me has been selected for "Community Films and Exploring Creativity Summit" by Adobe and TakingITGlobal. The film tackles the new emergence of Colombo port city and its damning effects on the fishery community in Modara.

Girls in Technology and NextGen IoT Responding to Covid 19 Lockdown

Responding to Covid 19 Lockdown Girls in Technology and NextGen IoT initiated a free online training program for Sri Lankan students and teachers in computer programming and web development

Yesterday we completed our first season Reaching 268 Teachers and 122 Students through 50 online sessions.

The 2nd season starts mid-May

 

 

 

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Article on Isoc Foundation on the work we do in Sri Lanka through Girls in Technology
https://www.isocfoundation.org/story/sri-lanka-increasing-girls-enrollment-in-tech/?fbclid=IwAR2kuo_KSswNnqR1hjCt9RSeygL42R5N7JqIyCitq4iNM_-cYkfjxwUKBcg

Launching Nextgen Creative Leaders

Nextgen Creative Leaders program is Supported By Adobe and TakingITGlobal. The program focuses on developing skills in Youth to strengthen their future creative careers.

Our project Nextgen selected as WSIS Prize 2020 - ITU Champion!

Our project Nextgen IoT selected as WSIS Prize 2020 - ITU Champion!

The Award Recognises activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development. It is given by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

Thank you Nextgen leaders, Volunteers, Our Partners and everyone who took part in our workshops we couldn't have done this without your support.

#GirlsInTechnogy #NextGen #internetsociety #isoc #isoclk #ideamart

It was an Honour To be featured in Wonder woman Magazine. Full Article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tgkNas6lKoe2Sg0YQt5AmalJSi63e1x2/view?usp=sharing

Presenting Nextgen and GiT at ISIF Asia Secretariat

Presenting Nextgen and GiT at ISIF Asia Secretariat / Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).

Talking about Designing for Generation Z at Reveal Future Talks

It was great to share my thoughts on Designing for Generation Z  at Reveal Future Talks

 

 

With Mr. Alain Chesnais

Volunteering at Siggraph Asia 2019

Girls in Technology and Nextgen IoT article on Wonder Woman.

Facilitating the Design Thinking workshop at Dialog Axiata Auditorium.

Facilitating the Design Thinking workshop of  NextGen IoT at Dialog Axiata Auditorium.

Reshaping our digital future in the North and East.

http://epaper.themorning.lk/Home/ShareArticle?OrgId=26efb059&imageview=1&fbclid=IwAR37VlUPuYVlpMEeQ8rpi7WTTMNWOdZnFHnT6UgkD9koSD2ZuM-8MtT7AA4

Dialog’s Ideamart partners Shilpa Sayura Foundation to enable Sri Lanka’s future IoT economy

Ideamart, a platform for developers and content providers presented by Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, has partnered with the Shilpa Sayura Foundation for ‘NextGen IoT’, a programme that works to educate, train and mentor young Sri Lankans to gain industry skills in Internet of Things (IoT) and Information Security.

NextGen IoT assist individuals to gain employment in the industry by creating a learning path for IoT and Information Security, identifying, training and incubating IoT developers and supporting the development and monetisation of innovative IoT applications.  

Poornima Meegammana - Director, Youth Development of the Shilpa Sayura Foundation said, “This foundation was launched to empower youth with the knowledge and skills required to face emerging socio economic and environmental challenges using social innovations, powered by emerging technology and NextGen IoT is the ideal programme to instil this mentality and skillset in Sri Lanka’s future developer generation.” 

https://www.dailynews.lk/2019/06/24/finance/189127/dialog%E2%80%99s-ideamart-partners-shilpa-sayura-foundation-enable-sri-lanka%E2%80%99s

Girls in Technology at Shilpasena Exhibition

Girls in Technology was at Shilpasena Exhibition - Sri Lanka's largest tech exhibition for 3 days creating awareness and giving IoT experiences to a large number of school and university girls, teachers, parents and policymakers.