Admist all of the challenges in developing countries there is a need to not only solve problems, but to change the general narrative using technology. Much of these can be achieved using the power and freedom opensource provides. There is a need to increase the nos of people who can solve their immediate problems using technology. We aim to bring to light how DjangoGirls in Africa make it possible

1. The impact of women
learning to code in
developing countries
DjangoCon 2016 - Philly

2. Aisha Bello | Ibrahim Diop
@aishaXbello | @diopib

3. PyCon Namibia

4. +50%Women represent more than half of the population in developing countries
and they are not given proper consideration

5. Challenges
→ internet access
→ education
→ technology we use is mostly commercial
→ understanding core concepts
→ Wrong understanding of the Value of programming

6. Changing the Narrative

7. How Do We Change the Narrative?
→ Events like this one
→ Be aware of the people you don’t know
→ Encourage problem solving through creation
https://www.djangoproject.com/diversity/

8. Involving Women = growth

9. Involving Women
→ Including more than an additional 50%
→ Dragging much more brains for innovation
“ We believe that amazing things happen when people from
different worlds and world-views approach each other to
create a conversation.”
→ Development: Growth

10. Education is the Key

11. The Naija Django Story

12. Django Girls
NIGERIA

13. 180+ Women impacted
@iamOpetunde : Helen Opetunde
3rd Year medical student and Django Girls
Ogbomoso organiser.
“My motivation for going into the tech world
was to integrate technology into health to
prevent as many deaths as possible harnessing
the powers of technology. I did not take this
seriously until earlier this year when I attended
Django girls”

14. 180+ Women impacted
@Godsown_child : Mercy Akinkuotu
3rd year Computer Sci student, DjangoGirls Akure organiser.
“ The workshop was successful the girls wanted more of it, they were
inspired to code. People kept asking me what next? My lecturers were
Impressed and they kept telling to continue. That was what prompted me
to organize a 3-day code camp which will be coming up in August. I want
to say THANK YOU to Django girls for allowing me to be a part of
something wonderful.”
PS: You can call me Django mama as I am now called in school. ”

15. 180+ Women impacted
@tmdoubleu : Tomiwa Orolu
Software tester(Q&A), DjangoGirls Lagos#2 &
PyLadiesNigeria organiser.
“After the event, I started to work through the Django tutorials and I
got a better understanding of the MVC (model-view- controller); this
made me understand the internals of the applications I was testing
at work better.
I also started to check out how python/Django can make my tests
more efficient and I discovered selenium and robot framework and
voila! My testing had become much more efficient.”

16. Problems organising events
→ Internet access
→ Electricity
→ Viruses
→ Lack of Computing devices

17. Growing Communities

18. African Communities
→ Cameroon - http://pyconcameroon.org/
→ Namibia - http://na.pycon.org/
→ Nigeria- https://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups#Nigeria
→ Zimbabwe - https://sites.google.com/site/pyconzim/home/
→ Zambia
→ Uganda
→ South Africa (6, 7 Oct.) https://za.pycon.org/

19. python-africa
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-africa
“Linking African Python Efforts, because We are Stronger Together.”

20. You Can Help.

21. How We can help Change the narrative
→ Adapt product (event, hardware, software etc.)
→ Supporting/ encouraging more women focused education
events in african communities
→ Promote Programming Differently

24. Thank You@AishaXBello
@diopib