Tech

Geeking Out: Uganda’s Women are Creating the Next Generation of Girl Geeks

STEM

Young women are learning to program computers far from Silicon Valley, developing apps that will help their neighbors—and themselves.

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If not for a view of the ornate Uganda National Mosque or the sprawling, congested taxi park in the distance, it would be hard to tell that Outbox, a technology incubator and accelerator, is in a high-rise in Kampala (Uganda’s capital city) and not some non-descript office building in Silicon...

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