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MDWIT and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization Partner to Develop Center for Women and Technology for the Arab Region
MONTERREY, MEXICO (9/04/09) -
The
Multinational Development of Women in
Technology (MDWIT)1 and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Organization (TAGO), together with global and
Arab partners, met to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding as a means to move forward on a
formation strategy for the advancement of the
Center for Women and Technology for the Arab
Region (CWTAR).
The innovative program
will bring together coalitions of women and
technology organizations that focus on the
recruitment, retention and advancement of girls
and women into technical fields and technology
leadership roles to better grow economic
development in the region. Central to the
partnership is the development of a framework
for a self-sustaining, well-functioning
non-government organization (NGOs) developed
and sustained by women and technology-serving
organizations within the region that can
address and respond to the local and national
culture and context.
“Once fully
developed, CWTAR will enable organizations to
help more women and girls to prepare for
careers and become leaders in technical fields,
communicating information related to the
richness and breadth of women lives, and foster
the development and dissemination of research
and publications concerning gender and
technology,” said Claudia Morrell, CEO of
MDWIT.
The CWTAR proposed has already
moved the collaborative concept from strategy
to execution through local leadership provided
by UAE Higher Colleges of Technology’s Dubai
Women’s College. Through a new collaboration
with Microsoft, the College hosted the first
DigiGirlz program outside the United States to
introduce over 200 girls to women technical
role models and fun technology.
1 MDWIT
is providing leadership for a larger Global
Women and Technology Collaborative (GWTC)
strategy for regional centers of which CWTAR is
the first.
http://www.womentechcollaborative.org/
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Founder and
Chairman of TAG org stated: “It is time to
consolidate efforts and better understand ICT
development needs and take full advantage of
ICT technologies and programs through
cooperation and partnership frameworks that
enhance educational outcomes and stimulate
innovation. Women have always had important
roles in educating our young children and
developing our societies. Empowering them with
new tools and values will surely help them
contribute to the competitiveness of our
economies and to building new generation which
can fully understand the new challenges of the
technological world of the Arab
region”.
TAGO, in partnership with the
Higher Colleges of Technology Dubai Women’s
College, is already providing leadership
through the development of a web portal on a
large scale for understanding the status of ICT
in the Arab countries. By engaging CWTAR, we
will definitely redefine women’s role in
societies and through the portal, a new base
for communication will be developed to ensure a
better understanding of several key issues in
women and technology in the Arab region. The
Multinational Development of Women in
Technology (MDWIT) was founded as a nonprofit
501(c)(3) organization in 2006 to accelerate
growth in the global knowledge economy. By
combining women's latent potential with
innovative ideas enabled through technology,
all women, their families and communities
prosper.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
(TAGO) was founded in 1972 and now has become
the leading Arab global group of professional
service firms. TAGORG.com Your global partner
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