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Hindustan Times: An African Bid to Educate Women on IT

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 13, 2006

“LinuxChix–a women’s-only computer initiative by an African
group–hopes to empower the fairer sex in matters of technology and
software.

“Linuxchix Africa was formed in 2004 ‘by African women for
African women’ because, as one of the co-founders Dorcas Muthoni
says, ‘people fear computers and women are more affected by this
fear…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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