TechWomen Launches Today
From: Maughan, Chelsea V [mailto:MaughanCV@state.gov] On Behalf Of Stock, Ann
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:04 PM
To: Stock, Ann
Subject: TechWomen Launches Today
Good news! TechWomen, a new program from the U.S. State Department, launched today.
TechWomen will send 38 professional mentorships for women from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the West Bank and Gaza who are emerging leaders in technical fields to the United States for a five-week, project-based mentoring program at premier technology companies.
Secretary Clinton first announced the creation of TechWomen at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in April 2010. By pairing Middle Eastern & North African professionals with their counterparts in Silicon Valley, this program supports several of Secretary Clinton’s priorities. This is a ground-breaking program that will empower women around the world.
TechWomen is a public-private partnership, with a number of leading U.S. technology companies committed to participating in the program, including Google, Facebook, CA Technologies, Cisco Systems, Microsoft Corporation, IBM, Catapult Design, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and BASIC (Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium), a consortium of more than 20 institutions including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, SRI International, Agilent Technologies, Symantec, and Sandia National Laboratories.
ECA has awarded a grant of over $1 million to the Institute of International Education and its West Coast Center in San Francisco, in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, to administer the TechWomen program.
If you are interested in learning more about this effort or are a technology company looking to get involved, please visit www.techwomen.org or contact Dana Rosenberg at rosenbergdc@state.gov.
We look forward to welcoming the first cadre of women this spring.
Ann Stock
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
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