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This year's Ms Geek Africa is Salissou Hassane Latifa, 21, from Niger. Her winning design is an app that helps communication between people caring for accident victims and the emergency services, and allows medical staff to advise on basic first aid before they arrive at the scene.
"Ms Geek has already changed the perception of what girls can do," says Esther Kunda of the Next Einstein Forum, a founding member of competition organiser Girls in ICT Rwanda.
The contest was set up as part of a nationwide effort to transform Rwanda from a small agricultural economy into an engine of technological innovation, with women and girls at the forefront of the revolution.
The government has set a target of achieving gender parity in the information communications technology sector by 2020, an ambitious goal in a worldwide industry notorious for its lack of diversity. But through educational campaigns, scholarships and mentorship programmes, Rwanda is determined to become a global leader for women in ICT.
"It's a good place to be a woman in tech right now," Kunda says of Rwanda.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:58PM (7 children)
Alright, you should get rid of that alt-dictionary. I don't know how Arnold was defined as "intelligent", but that's bullshit. He IS smarter than a rock, but that doesn't make him "intelligent".
(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:03PM (2 children)
Come on, mate. Military intelligence and Arnold intelligence is in the same league (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:22PM (1 child)
We never knew you were in the military. :P
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:29PM
Compulsory military service was a thing. Drain bamage inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Funny) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:39PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:50PM (1 child)
Per numerous online sources, he was tested at 135, which makes him a bit slow compared to me, but pretty smart compared to the average Rwandan which is claimed to be 70.
That's kinda the problem with "the Next Einstein" concept in Africa... someone 60 points smarter than the average white dude is in fact a doctrine changing Einstein, whereas a Rwandan 60 points smarter than the average Rwandan is still dumber than Arnie tested... With a side dish of I've screwed around with Android development, and app development is ... not trivial but not exactly high IQ. Compared to revolutionizing physics a couple times like Einstein or Feynman or similar, writing a somewhat more elaborate "hello world" app is not impressive outside Africa.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:18AM
Interesting. This might be one of the reasons you so desperately wish to believe in IQ, which came straight from the bowels of the social 'sciences'. It's similar to how it's difficult to get someone to believe something when their paychecks depend on them not believing it.
But, of course, anyone who doesn't accept IQ is a liberal, even when that is not the case.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @12:08AM
Based on what? He's a successful businessman, for example, and became a millionaire before his movie career.