Finding Ada
Ada Lovelace Day will be celebrated on 24th March, 2009.
Who, I hear you ask, is Ada Lovelace? ‘The world’s first computer programmer’ is the answer, writing for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
So, I hear you ask, what is Ada Lovelace Day? It’s an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. You can sign up at Pledgebank.
Why should you do this? Well, from the Finding Ada site:
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.
Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. That’s a relatively simple problem to begin to address. If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to. Let’s create new role models and make sure that whenever the question “Who are the leading women in tech?” is asked, that we all have a list of candidates on the tips of our tongues.
So, sign up at Pledgebank and get ready for the 24th.
xD.
