News
UNIFEM Australia Young Women's Leadership Forum
The UNIFEM Australia Young Women's Leadership Forum aims to improve the capacity of young women by providing them with opportunities to learn about and become involved in women's issues on a local, national and global scale. A contribution towards travel expenses will be provided by the WICT project. If you are interested, please find the attached information. 
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Digital Divas: Celebration at Brentwood
The pilot education project called "Digital Divas" that was initiated at Brentwood Secondary College, has been declared as a great success. In December 2008, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier Luke Donnellan joined the girls-only computer club to celebrate such a tremendous success. Read more
PhD scholarship opportunity with Monash University
An Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded PhD scholarship is now available in a new project at Monash University titled "Digital Divas: Designing approaches to enthuse girls' interest in ICT studies and ICT careers". The prospect PhD student will be under the supervision of Assoc Prof. Helen Forgasz (Monash University) and Dr. Catherine Lang (Swinburne University). Read now
Now the WICT group on LinkedIn
The Women in ICT group is now opened on LinkedIn, the social network which is a professional networking site for all the professionals around the world. We invite all our WICT members, students, guest speakers and simply everyone who is interested in what we are doing to join us now. Follow-up link
Alice from Google meets Digital Divas
Google software engineer, Alice Boxhall visited the Digital Divas students at Brentwood Secondary College today, who ironically are working on storyboard programming using the Alice Programming language. Read now
We are in Herald Sun: "digital divas in fashion"
Recently we came across the article written in the Herald Sun at the "Learn" section (Tuesday, October 14, p. 59) about the Digital Divas IT-inspired club initiative. It was the idea of our University's saying that IT careers are also fancy and stylish to go for. The Swinburne WICT group has been also mentioned in the article. Read now
Grace Hopper Conference 2008: Report and Photos
Catherine Lang and the trip scholarship winner Jessica Huynh have recently returned back from their trip to Colorado where the Grace Hopper Conference was hosted. Jess wrote a report about her trip to the USA, while Catherine was so kind to share with us some of breathtaking photos taken from Colorado. Details and photos
Thursday 20th November 2008: ACS and VicICT for Women Final Breakfast
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Vic ICT for Women organised the final networking breakfast for 2008. The called breakfast titled "Leading Edge Technology - Will it Change our Habits?" is a good opportunity to network with industry colleagues, exchange ideas and share experiences. More details
Tuesday 7 October 2008: The AIIA Sustainable Futures Forum
AIIA event is organised under the slogan "Technology: the Key to Sustainable Business" in order to give an access to Australia's leading business, technology and environmental sustainability experts. If you are interested in this event, please find out more. Read now
ACW-W Spring Newsletter has been issued
Australian Women in ICT Spring newsletter has been already issued. Please feel free to look more closely into the latest news and upcoming events. Read now
Round-table network lunch
The round-table event was succesfully run. Students from Swinburne University were also presented at the lunch. For familiar faces, check our last photos taken from the event, 29th August 2008. Some photos
Winner of Student GHC trip
Congratulations to Jessica Huynh who won a faculty grant to attend a Grace Hopper Conference this year. Read now
Mentoring for Swinburne students via MentorNet
As the part of an ACM Student Chapter, all Swinburne WICT students can access MentorNet. If you want an international perspective via a female mentor, this program is more likely for you. Read now
The inaugural issue of the ACM-W newsletter
Each issue will describe some of the exciting projects ACM-W and other organizations offer, provide interviews of some of the leading women in the field, hear stories from women computing professionals throughout the world about important issues they face and projects they are initiating, and celebrate the accomplishments of some of the remarkable women in our field. Read now
Past Events
Vic IT Dinner with Women in ICT:
This was an exciting event for women in ICT, organised by VicIT. Dynamic speakers such Caroline Patton (Accuteque) and Jackie Korhonen (CEO, Infosys Australia), a comedian Claire Hooper, they all entertained and engaged with the audience. Appraisal and awards have been awarded to some women who made a significant contribution to supporting women in ICT. More details
WICT Off-Semester Lunch: Guest Speaker
Katerina Andronis is a Director of Information Management at Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre, of one of highly IT equipped medical organisations across Australia. During the lunch, Katerina talked about the role of ICT in the health sector and shared her personal working experience. Full story
'Meet the Dean' Welcome Lunch (Semester 1, 2009). WICT group organised the welcome lunch early this semester. The Dean of the Faculty together with the WICT group personally welcomed all new students. Some photos
'Women's Day Celebration' on 5th March 2009.
Victorian ICT for Women and ACS organised a networking breakfast to celebrate 'International Women's Day' this year. Marilyn Ross, Sergeant at Multimedia, Victoria Police, was one of the keynote speakers.
WICT lunch with Carla Romero. Carla Romero is a Director of Programs at Computing Research Association, of one of the USA´s leading organisations working in this arena. During the lunch, Carla talked about the strategies of attracting more students, particularly girls, into ICT courses. Details and photos
Our girl volunteers and student ambassadors represented WICT group at Swinburne Open Day on 17th August 2008 welcoming both female and male students. Again we were in purple.
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"Round-Table Networking" Lunch.
VicICT for Women organised a lunch for female students who are studying ICT related subjects and working women with ICT backgrounds. More details
"From Graduate to Business" WICT Lunch. Megan Wilson as a Swinburne graduate, now is working as a Business Analyst for Oracle. She gave us a talk about their Graduate Programs.More details
"Life as a graduate" Lunch Guest speakers from ANZ: Hayley Miller, Graduate Recruitment Manager and a 2nd year graduate were invited to this lunch.
"WWW@Swinburne Lunch " share university experiences and unravel the mysteries of uni life.
"Meet the Dean" welcome to first-semester students, 18th February 2008. Some photos
As a first in Melbourne, Alana has been awarded a travel grant for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference to be held in Orlando (Florida) in October. Congratulations Alana!
Catherine Lang presented "The Women's ICT room: an international picture showing that 'one size cannot fit all' and what WICT is doing about it." 11 September 2007. Slides
'Computer Clubs for Girls', seminar presented by Melody Hermon, 1st December 2006. More details
