Django Girls: empowerment of women in technology

Cuenca, miércoles 11 abril 2018
Participants
Participants

 

Forty nine women from several universities, high schools and institutions from Cuenca, Azogues, La Libertad, Salinas, Deleg, Machala and Loja took part in a workshop titled "Django Girls", a workshop to create web sites.

This event was organized by the UNESCO chairs program on support technologies for inclusive education and the computer engineering undergraduate program in Cuenca, with the cooperation of Argentina en Python and the Python community in Cuenca. 

it was a one day workshop that provided participants the tools needed to create a website, tools such as HTML, CSS, Python and Django. The workshop was led by Manuel Kaufmann, Latin American ambassador of PYTHON, and Johanna Sánchez, director of the PYTHON community in Colombia.

The aim of the project is to get more people involved in technology through free courses, talks and workshops. It is supported by Django Girls, an international foundation that promotes the empowerment of women in technology.