Software development competitions for women in Dubai Morocco
On January 7th it was reported that the Meera Kaul Foundation, which works to sexual equality, will hold on 19-20 February in Dubai the 2nd competition of development (Hakton), for women entrepreneurs from across the Middle East. The competition is named WiSTEM. Emphasizing the theme “Smart Cities for Women”, in which women alone and in teams, will develop applications which represent innovative solutions for women in smart cities. Winners will receive support and guidance from the fund and awards. “Compared to other parts of the world, the proportion of women in startups is higher, even compared to the Silicon Valley”.
Even Morocco held a similar event on March 20th in the city of Rabat called “Girls Code Too”. The event was held by the Moroccan Association for Computing Machinery and collaboration and in cooperation of “Women in Computers – Morocco”. The event’s intention was to be a “small tribute to the brightest women in Morocco and respect their efforts in a field that is often regarded as masculine”. The event was held at the layout of the Moroccan Collegiate Programming Contest (MCPC), which is held for the last four years and aims to create a competitive basis to students in Morocco to assess and develop their programming skills and prove their abilities in the field. Only this time the teams are entirely women, with each team represented another Moroccan institution and runs a series of complex problems to be solved in one of three different programming languages, and use only one computer.
The aim of the competition is to be a first step towards “programming successful campaign” and encouraging the young women to join the “competitive programming”.
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