Congratulations to Colegio del Futuro in Guatemala for being one of the 5 shortlisted nominatios for the Category 4 (Initiatives toward providing girls with an opportunity to become not just active users but also creators of ICTs and content)
They were chosen from over 360 nominations from 70 countries in the world.
Congratulations to Maria Quezada and her team from Campus Tec and our association.
More info:
ITU Telecom Young Innovators Competition has launched its fourth challenge in the 2014 edition. It calls for young people aged between 18 and 30 from around the world to submit ideas for concepts of start-ups aimed at using the Internet of Things (IoT) for social good in order to significantly improve the lives of people globally. Run in partnership with the IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Initiative Working Group, the challenge opens the way for two winning concepts for start-ups to attend ITU Telecom World 2014, the leading platform for debate, networking and showcasing for the global ICT community, that will be held in Doha, Qatar, 7 – 10 December 2014.
Any interested participants from Guatemala? asociacion@tec.com.gt
Colegio del Futuro con Molvu..Felicitaciones:
Please look as this opportunity for 2 young women in our region:
Big Dream documentary directed by Iron Way Films in partnership with Microsoft follows young women from small town America to the Middle East who will stop at nothing to achieve their Big Dream in technology.
You can view a teaser for the film here: http://ironwayfilms.com/
They are looking for two young women – aged anywhere from 17 to 22 – one to film in Africa and one in Latin America to feature in the documentary. Filming will be over a few days in August.
Contact: Kelly Cox at kelly@ironwayfilms.com
Thank your for the support from ITU and SIT in the organization of this event. The initiative ams to encourage girls + young women to consider careers in information + communication technologies (ICT) and was celebrated on April 24th. this year.
Our local participants! (We had over 50 schools all over Guatemala watching our streaming)
We had a contest during the event on which idea was best liked in the room and via Twitter about what can be done to increase the participation of girls in studying careers related to ICTs. Our winners!
Our guest speakers!
Our prize courtesy of Mbau3D (www.mbau3d.com) who also did demostrations as to how the trophy was printed with a 3D printer.
We had special guests that were visually or hearing challenged so we had a sign language traslator during the event
Our audience in the room!
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E0dFzTg6A&feature=em-subs_digest international
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Curso en línea “Tecnologías de Redes Cuarta Generación”
Del 3 de junio al 5 de julio de 2013 (5 semanas)
El curso será desarrollado por Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Capacitación de Telecomunicaciones (INICTEL-UNI Perú) en estrecha coordinación con el Centro Regional de Capacitación de la Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones (CITEL) y el Centro de Excelencia de la UIT para la Región de las Américas.
Para mayores informaciones sobre el curso:
http://academy.itu.int/index.
Para informaciones sobre becas CITEL:
https://www.citel.oas.org/en/