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Scottish part of the Girl Geek Dinners network
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Girl Geek Scotland (GGS) is a Scottish volunteer group that promotes women's engagement in the information technology industry. It was established in 2008 and is part of the Girl Geek Dinners network. GGS held its first Girl Geek Dinner in Dundee in February 2009, with a group being established in Edinburgh shortly after.

GGS has received funding from the UKRC, Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, and WYLLN, among other groups.

In late 2009, Girl Geek Scotland won funding from Informatic Ventures in Edinburgh, to develop three intensive residential workshops for 2010 on the subjects of 'Creativity into business', 'Developing a Funding Strategy' and 'Negotiation Strategies and Techniques'. The Workshops are for women in pre-start-up business; start-up businesses and existing businesses in the technology sector in Scotland.

In 2010, the Speaker Series was launched in Dundee Contemporary Arts by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Shanna Tellerman, who at the time was the CEO of Wildpockets, a spin-out company from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.

References

  1. MacLeod, Michael (8 February 2011). "Girl Geeks dinner and Vimeo archive launch". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  2. "Festival of Politics: where are the women in STEM?". BBC. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  3. McDonald, Gillian (3 March 2017). "The future is getting brighter for Scottish women working in tech". i. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Girl Geek network helping women break into male-dominated IT". The Scotsman. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  5. "How are these five influential women revolutionising the UK tech sector?". City A.M. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  6. Davidson, Jenni (3 October 2019). "The appliance of science: women in STEM". Holyrood. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  7. "IT girls in networking revolution". The Scotsman. 25 July 2009. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  8. "Girls gather". The Courier. Dundee, Scotland. 10 February 2010. Archived from the original on 15 February 2010.
  9. Harris, Phil (17 December 2009). "Scotland in Focus: Girl Geek Scotland – Part 1". SquareGo. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  10. Harris, Phil (7 January 2010). "Scotland in Focus: Girl Geek Scotland – Part 2". SquareGo. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

External links

  • www.girlgeekscotland.com Edit this at Wikidata
  • Simpson, Morna (24 February 2016). "Why the IT Crowd needs more women". FutureScot. Retrieved 15 July 2024. Girl Geek Scotland aims to draw attention to this issue as a cultural phenomenon and help to rebalance the ecosystem. We are seeking sponsorship to offer scholarships to women from India, to come to Scotland and study Data Engineering or a related subject, with the aim of encouraging a cultural exchange that will banish the myth that computing is a subject for men only. Let's learn from their experiences why a career in computing is such an attractive proposition in India.
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