For Immediate Press Release
"We are doing it again"
#STEM4girls 
 
July 21, 2016,  In a #STEM4girls Pan-African campaign, the Miss.Africa program is mobilizing a Round II Seed Fund for Tech initiatives in Africa that will avail small grants to support women and girls in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields to launch or expand their own initiatives that will increase digital opportunities in IT related training, jobs and leadership roles.

The Miss.Africa program led by DCA Academy and in partnership with eMobilis, is able to train over 25 girls in mobile and technology for the year 2016.
  
"These STEM projects are important for the development and growth of internet technologies that will spur Africa to the next frontier and we are happy to be part of the progress of taking the continent to that global platform."

Sophia Bekele CEO and Founder DotConnectAfrica Group

2015 Inaugural Grand Prize Seed Fund Winner eMobilis Kenya receiving the $5000 Grant  
    
This is the second round of announcement for Miss.Africa Seed Fund. The winner of the first round eMobilis, is a Kenya based Mobile Technology Institute that focuses on training women & girls on Mobile Software Development and Network Infrastructure, which emerged as the grand prize winner of the inaugural Miss.Africa Seed Fund for an amount of USD 5,000.  Twenty Five (25) women selected from over three hundred applicants will benefit directly by receiving training from eMobilis. The two other winners for the USD 1000.00 prize were a Madagascar based Tech start-up MDG/Pyladies Antananarivo and Pycon Cameroon, a start up that teaches computer coding to girls and women.

The Seed Fund is a sum of Seven Thousand United Stated Dollars (USD 7000). DCA Trust received an overwhelming number of applications of over 90 applicants from more than 18 Countries in Africa across the African continent and anticipates a big turn of applications for the 2016 phase.  
 
This Pan-African program is interested in learning about successful activities that are currently supporting women and girls in STEM and through this effort, we also identify how we might support scalability and their impacts.
 
The 2016 Seed Grant for the amount Five Thousand US dollars ($5,000) will assist the winning participant to start or expand their capacity, while two other participants will receive a One Thousand US dollars ($1,000) grant, based on a mix of demographics and efforts that qualify under our program. 
 
To apply, please follow the instructions in the link below and send an Expression of Interest  (EOI) to the email address at: eoi@dotconnectafrica.org
 
SEED FUND ELIGIBILITY

TIMELINE

July 22, 2016: Miss.Africa Fund Online Application opens
November 15, 2016: Miss.Africa Seed Fund Application deadline
March 2, 2017: Round One of Miss.Africa grants announced

Press Release: https://www.prlog.org/12574377.pdf  
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About DCA Academy
DCA Digital Academy was established to provide training and capacity development on various topics related to the Internet - from how to effectively use it, to its governance - so as to increase Internet and digital literacy in Africa. This project, in conjunction with other DCA's projects managed under DCA Trust, is aimed at achieving the organization's objective of advancing education in information technology to the African society.

The DCA Digital Academy provides the tools and skills to foster training, leadership, entrepreneurship and also connecting women and youth to innovation highways, through its Miss.Africa and Generation.africa programs to provide digital opportunities. This way, Africa can be part of the foundations of a digitally aware societies.

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