ON INTERNATIONAL Women's Day, Rwanda's first ever Ms Geek Rwanda contest was held at Lemigo Hotel. Now, this was no glitzy young-girls-strutting-around-in-swimsuits kind of contest. On the contrary, the last five girls standing battled it out through their knowledge and skills in Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The competition, which was an initiative of Girls in ICT Rwanda, a group of women of all ages working in ICT including entrepreneurs, professionals and students, was aimed at encouraging young girls and women to embrace science and technology, a field that has wrongly been categorised as ' a men's thing'.
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