{"id":425,"date":"2009-09-24T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/?p=425"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:37:35","slug":"female-ict-role-models-on-tv-and-youtube-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/gender-equality-in-ict-education\/female-ict-role-models-on-tv-and-youtube-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Female ICT Role Models, on TV and YouTube too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a new father of a young daughter<\/a>, this month’s debate has been very personal for me. I look at the strong women I see in technology and I hope, dream, that some day my Hanalei will be a leader in whatever profession she chooses.<\/p>\n

So its been with great interest that I’ve read about how Brooke Partridge and Karen Coppock found inspiration for their achievement in ICT. To complete the triptych of women in ICT that I admire, I’ve interviewed Kristen Peterson, a co-founder of Inveneo<\/a> and now its CEO. <\/p>\n

She’s built the organization from just an idea in 2002 to a leading ICT4D organization I so admire, that I pretty much begged her to hire me (and she’s now my boss). Here, I interview her about how she came to be in the technology industry:<\/p>\n

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Its interesting that she hit on each of the key points of our debate: the importance of parents & mentors, ICT is more than one industry, and how exposure to ICT can excite girls in any culture, without previously participating in this Educational Technology Debate.<\/p>\n

My favorite was her early mentor source: TV. Through this often maligned ICT, Kristin saw powerful women role modes to emulate and give her inspiration. Might we use YouTube – this generations TV – to showcase interviews of women in ICT? Please add interviews that you find powerful in the comments below. YouTube videos are directly supported by the commenting system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a new father of a young daughter<\/a>, this month’s debate has been very personal for me. I look at the strong women I see in technology and I hope, dream, that some day my Hanalei will be a leader in whatever profession she chooses.<\/p>\n

So its been with great interest that I’ve read about how Brooke Partridge and Karen Coppock found inspiration for their achievement in ICT. To complete the triptych of women in ICT that I admire, I’ve interviewed Kristen Peterson, a co-founder of Inveneo<\/a> and now its CEO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156],"tags":[27,30,199,200,201,202,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}