Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Suw Charman-Anderson of Findingada.com observed the day of March 24 by opening a pledge bank stating “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.”. She accomplished this goal with 1,980 other pledges.
“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. “
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, is said to have written the world’s first computer programmes and the first description of a computer. Read more about Ada Lovelace and the women in technology that were celebrated in her honor by visiting the list of collected stories here.
March 20th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Nice post, intresting read. Keep posting and I’ll come back for some more reading! Thanks!