Code for Pakistan and Habib University hosted an Open Source Day for Women (OSDW) on 28th January 2017, where about 40 young women and guests participated in the day-long workshop, learning more about open source coding and about contributing to the larger civic innovation space.<\/p>\n
The women came together, developed their tech skills, and learned about contributing to open source tech. Code for Pakistan is a non-profit organization focused on building a civic innovation ecosystem to increase citizen engagement and improve public service delivery, by supporting the development of open source mobile and web applications – and conducting civic hackathons.<\/p>\n
This event was in accordance with the WiCSE ideology that, For any country\u2019s prosperity, women play a very important role. Platforms like this are critical because they inspire young women to bring their ideas, expand their networks, encourage them, and connect with role models.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very practical – and the workshop taught me some valuable skills to help me with open source contribution,\u201d participant Areej Al Medinah, first year Electrical Engineering student at Habib University.<\/p>\n\n\t\t