Data like a Girl: Building data #GirlSquad
Channel: ESCALATOR
Date: 2021-08-16

Presenter: Dr Ekemini Eyita-Okon (Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Africa-China Studies, University of Johannesburg)

Presentation title: Data like a Girl: Building data #GirlSquad

Event: ESCALATOR EMPOWER Track - 12 August 2021 (https://escalator.sadilar.org/champions/empower)

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIUbJlw7B2IXnLDmBQmTexOieRBXIETk/view

This presentation was part of the launch of the EMPOWER mentorship programme that forms part of the Digital Champions Initiative (https://escalator.sadilar.org/champions/overview) of the ESCALATOR programme. 

Other talks in this series can be accessed via our EMPOWER playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAWb55M7X2CHsI5HWOFx9ysQrMlJHFolW and include:
- "Women + Data: Changing Africa’s story" by Adaugo Isaac from WanaData
- “Autobiographical learning for student engagement in digital storytelling” by Dr Candice Livingston from Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- "Learning in a community, 'S Wonderful 'S Marvelous" by Vebashini Naidoo from RLadies Johannesburg
- "The Carpentries: An open-access community for all" by Dr Angelique Trusler from The Carpentries 
- "Growing tech skills in and out the classroom" by Dr Caroll Hermann from University of Zululand
- "Bridging the digital divide: Open learning, sharing, and collaborating through tech and science communities" by Laura Mugeha from YouthMappers
- "Towards a Feminist Digital Ethnography: Navigating Identity, Belonging and In-Betweenness at the Frontier of Online and Offline Spaces" by Dr Ingrid Brudvig who is an independent contractor

For more information about ESCALATOR, please visit our website: https://escalator.sadilar.org