This initiative has the aim of ending the misconceptions that “STEM is for boys” and creating a fun atmosphere that will get girls excited about all the career paths that are available to them.

Following up on the success of the Code Like A Girl program, dLab partnered with the University of Dar es Salaam and the ICT commission of Tanzania to design a program for training young girls, especially at community schools on emerging technologies.

This is the program initiative by dLab that targets young career women who are entrepreneurs or aspire to be entrepreneurs by enhancing their digital skills so as to stay relevant in the field.

Women in Data Science (WiDS) was founded in 2015, an annual event on the Stanford campus. Since then, WiDS has supported other “Data Champions” to organize similar events worldwide. In 2019, dLab organized the first WiDS Dar es Salaam as one of the WiDS regional conferences.