Sunday, February 18, 2018

Africa needs more women computer scientists. How to make it happen

In Africa, a continent grappling with many

social ills, it’s critical that universities produce more Computer Science graduates. It’s also one that equips students with crucial skills.
Computer Science graduates are problem solvers and logical thinkers who can apply their technical expertise in a range of ways – including to socioeconomic problems. For example, Dr Christopher Chepken used ICT tools to provide interventions for day labourers in a developing country’s context. Maletsabisa Molapo worked on a project that designed a tool to help rural health trainers to create digital training content for low-literate community health workers (CHWs) in Lesotho.
But there’s a problem: Computer Science is an especially male-dominated university course all over the world.