Ada Lovelace Day | Women in technology
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Today, 24th March 2009 is the first Ada Lovelace Day. Bloggers around the globe are invited to write a blog post about a women in technology that they admire. The aim is to highlight female role models and encourage women to become leaders in technology.
What does “in technology” mean?
It’s up to you how you interpret the phrase “in technology”. We’re not just interested in hardcore ninja programmers, but any woman who creates, invents, or uses any technology in an innovative way. Feel free to interpret it as widely as you like.
- From the website FindingAda.com
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Ada Lovelace is today appreciated as the first computer programmer. Read more about Ada Lovelace on Wikipedia.
Tell me more about Ada Lovelace Day?
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.
- From the website Pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay
Who is behind this/ who started it?
Web 2.0 Expo Europe speaker and freelance social software consultant, Suw Charman-Anderson pledged that she would publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom she admires but only if 1,000 other people did the same. Suw explains how she came up with the concept in further detail on the FndingAda.com website. Although, the amount of people that have contributed to this so far is over the 1,000 mark, why not add your own contribution? I’m still debating about whom I want to write about for mine…
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Susan Kare, a pioneer in the field of interface design | Ada Lovelace Day | Niamh Redmond Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 11:14 am
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