Community
An overview of my community work in both
women's empowerment and open science
Women’s Empowerment Activities
I am actively engaged in designing and conducting a variety of activities aiming to empower young girls and women. Here is a curated list of community activities I have been involved with:
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Regional ambassador. Technovation Challenge. 2015-2018
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Founder and President. Technovation Tunisia, the non-profit organization dedicated to teaching young girls coding and entrepreneurship skills. 2016-present
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Global judge. Technovation Challenge. 2016-2018
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Invited speaker and panelist. Charting a course: What does the journey of building a successful science career look like?. July 2019
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Invited speaker and panelist. Sheroes of Science: breaking clichés from schools to firms. May 2019
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Invited judge. Regional HULT Prize competition. December 2018
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Panelist. STEM careers in the new world, TechGirls 2018, Legacy International and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. July 2018
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Ambassador. Women in Data Science (WiDS). 2018
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Program designer and manager. Your voice matters, a series of trainings teaching girls to use technology to raise their voices, in partnership with Unicef. 2017-2018
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Invited member. Unicef UReport program national steering committee. 2017-2018
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Co-organizer. First Pan African WiDS online conference. 2018
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Co-organizer. Girls 1st Hack. 2018
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Country contributor. Young and Online:Children’s perspectives on life in the digital age (The State of the World’s Children 2017 Companion Report). 2017
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Invited committee member. Africa Code Week: train the trainers program for young girls. 2017
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Program designer and manager. Girls coding to solve sustainable development goals (SDGs) related problems in partnership with UN Women. 2017
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Invited speaker and program emcee. Apps and girls leading the change: Technovation World Pitch Summit hosted by Google Made with Code. 2017
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Featured female role model. Career Girls. 2017
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Invited speaker. eSkills4GirlsAfrica: African initiatives promoting digital skills for girls, Transform Africa summit. May 2017
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Panelist. Creating sustainable development and Education ecosystems, Africa Day 2016 joint event organized by the African development Bank and the European Investment Bank. November 2016
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Speaker and panelist. Fostering Women-centred technology design and innovation, Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology. September 2016
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Invited trainer. STEM careers workshop for Latin Patriarchate School girls, Techwomen delegation trip to Jordan. February 2016
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Invited selection committee member. TechGirls program: U.S. department of state exchange program. 2015-2016
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Panel moderator. Journeys into STEM, Technovation World pitch summit. 2015 and 2016
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Panelist. African Diaspora Network’s 2nd Annual Dialogue with African TechWomen Emerging Leaders at the Silicon Valley. 2014
Open Science Activities
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Keynote speaker. Leveraging open science and collaborative research for better health outcomes, ISCB Student Symposium Africa 2019. November 2019
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Co-chair. ISCB-Africa ASBCB 2019 conference on Bioinformatics, Ghana. November 2019
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Panelist. Achieving scientific quality for Africa led R&D, DELTAS Africa conference: A Critical Mass Developing World-Class Research Leaders. July 2019
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Co-organizer. East Africa Open Science Tour. November 2018
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Co-organizer. African perceptions of Open Science session, International Data Week, Botswana. 2018
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Co-organizer. Working Open Workshop, Institut Pasteur Paris. 2017
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Keynote speaker. How is big data changing our world: opportunities and challenges, Hong Kong International School and French Embassy in Hong Kong. November 2017
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Invited opinion article. Big Data, opportunities and challenges and why should girls and women be involved. 2017
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Panel discussion organizer and moderator. How does Open Science impact Biomedical research?, ISCB-ASBCB African conference on Bioinformatics, Uganda. October 2017
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Scientific co-chair. ISCB-ASBCB African conference on Bioinformatics, Uganda. October 2017
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Panelist. Health and the numerical revolution in Africa, Forum Afrique Expansion, Canada. October 2017
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Young Investigator Award. Sage Assembly: Mapping Open Research Ecosystems. 2017
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Named to Mozilla’s Network50. 50 people who are making the internet a better place. 2017
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Co-organizer. DREAM of Malaria hackathon. 2016
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Site host. Mozilla Global Sprint at Institut Pasteur de Tunis. 2016,2018
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Mentor. Mozilla mentorship program: Open leadership training series. 2016,2017
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Invited member. Open leadership cohort, Mozilla Science Labs. 2016