We look at this to focus more on women and youth and we empower them and build skills. Okay, so we're also going to look at helping them to do more research as the doctor represented was saying. That's our main focus and I believe as the programme goes on, we'll be sharing more insights. Thank you. Okay, I think I'm interested in myself already. My name is Rene, I'm a developer in West Africa. We are also into building digital skills on the continent of Africa. I think I'm interested in myself already. I think I'm interested in myself already. My name is Rene, I'm a developer in West Africa. We are also into building digital skills on the continent of Africa in terms of open knowledge, open education, these are the things that we work on the continent of Africa. Hi everyone, my name is Aki, I'm here representing OpenStreetMap Ghana, sorry, OpenStreetMap is an initiative that creates and provides geological information for you to use so it supports the use of open data. Yes. Okay, so I'll start off with a question and then this one goes to all panellists and I'll give each panellist two minutes to address it. So I'll read the question. It says, as women and climate enthusiasts, can you share from personal experience on how gender can be mainstreamed into climate change discussions? I'll take it again. I'm sorry, correct me how to put it, is it gentle, gentle, okay, correct now, gentle, all right, so this gentle can start. Thank you very much.  It's crucial to ensure that the consent of everyone is taken into account on the surface. It's missing that climate change of fits everyone equally but that is not the case in instance where climate situations intensify. women take on more roles to take care of the victims and their household and in their communities. And so doing they may neglect their their self-development. They are they may neglect their self-development. So to normalize the first that climate change in parts of both men and women different differently we need to first of all involve men and women equally at the decision table of climate change policies and a research by the UNDP on climate change says that one third of women worldwide are involved in agricultural employment they are employed in agricultural the sector and then but then only 12.6 percent of them are land owners and it's also sad to know that only 10 percent of this number only 10 percent of this in relation to when it comes to agricultural aid for women we may receive only 10 percent of this this aid may include access to information on how women can adapt to new technology and weather forecasts for their farms so in incorporating gender related perspectives or in strategizing how we can include climate change into gender we need to take it to consideration the various needs the various capacities of both men and women into consideration this it may include various gender disparities versus the resources opportunities and and policy thank you so the best person okay so with the with the issue of climate change as she rightly said it's a various you may think climate change affects both men and women equally but no it doesn't women are very very vulnerable okay so um we want to look at even poverty and limited education it's actually one area you can look at if let me just give an my experience okay I think we are speaking a lot of English so you let's come home if you go back in your homes or me when I was very young anytime the tap wasn't flowing we need to go fetch water it's the woman and I'll carry a little bucket or a small bucket along and carry it on my head and bring it home the men will just be home and if they have to bath we have to go and fetch the water and bring it to the men to bath is here a crime for a man to equally do that no and we carry a bucket on our head at the end of the day you get headaches or you don't get headaches you get headaches you get body pains our health is what is impacted you see so when it comes to climate change and it's um you know yeah women are very very vulnerable now you want to look at a girl child education I can't remember from where young girls are pulled just I'm sure most of you remember or you it goes like saying a girl child to school mama saying that to school you know there was a point that day they were advocating for girls to be in school because a lot of girls were not in school and I'm wondering today if they take having done I don't have my numbers here so I would not want to give a research based on that you realize that there's a huge gap which is gender inequality now the men in that are going to school having been educated they're able to find for themselves but the women we are not empowered we are not empowered so they didn't take you to a place where you can't even speak for yourself because you don't have that exposure in fact if they have not called a woman to moderate I would say it's an error because we didn't like it or the man who was more going to write from that became aware of the opportunity for the woman you cannot find it so women need to be empowered we need to be giving the opportunity to explore when you come to businesses see how many most of the businesses in Ghana are lined by name okay and most big businesses right here in this country get support from most of the financial institutions you go to a woman and they don't believe in the woman it's not that some of these educational awareness is coming up so you realize that some organizations you know are now pushing for women I come from an organization that is doing one but I'm sitting here I'm not wearing the shoes of the organization so I cannot promote it so you realize that it creates even poverty the woman doesn't have the money and money is powers you are in an area where it's flooded because you don't have money the house you just see that of the ideology the video that was showed you don't have the money to move to get in writing apartments especially when you are married you need to take authority from the man and the mind says you know what do you do you can't do anything you stay you have to bring that building who suffers your children suffer not a woman you are caregiver you have to take care of your children in terms of the food there is you need to you know take care of all of that we spend so much time and at the end of the day it goes a long way to affect women in some of these responsibilities are shared equally what do you think will happen the rest of the country's improvement I'm not surprised in some western part of um in the western country you go to north america you go to the european country they are more advanced than us and africa I think we suffer more unless you know you tell me that we do not because some of most of them is that the responsibility is shared but when you come to Africa we know there's culture and restrictions it's a sport in the woman's mind that the man is your head it is true I'm married the man is your head but the man cannot determine your life I'm not saying that in the wrong point but don't you expect your man no the man has a right to live you're the woman you have a right to live in you're responsible for your life at the end of the day if you are sick you are sick you are the only one who will bear that pain okay so something intentional as women we should not just you know the taking is racing at least we raise it quickly let's empower ourselves anything have a boy and a girl talk for the boy their computer game for the boy and you buy a doll baby car for um teddy bear for the girl because the girl gets to learn technology right from the road so she gets to grow and there's a gap in organizations how many changes fast climate change is sitting next to us so we need to you know rise up thank you thank you very so very I think you really want to answer the last question but thank you okay miss brown please take a floor actually um I think my two ladies here have said a lot about how women are being impacted by climate change and all has stood adaptation strategies because we are talking about technology and today we know that technology is helping us to solve problems if you look at climate change today you realize that women are disproportionately affected and let me talk about um which media space when you come to the media space we see the same problem for every event that we host you realize that 90 percent are men we are the women they will tell you that they are cooking at home or they have to take care of their little kids or sisters and so they cannot attend a basic training which is happening on saturdays if you told your mom that you're going for a little bit of training on saturday what's your mom will say that I know you are very old tell me and I haven't experienced the same thing today I'm preparing soup today I'm preparing basis from that and that and I'm a man of two and I understand because when I said I have children children I realized that it's not true to have kicks and still be running about you don't have your life okay so women tend to be affected they don't go for these opportunities and that's why when you look at the media space 90 percent are contributors or Wikipedia and male and that tells us that the information that is being represented on this global platform that everybody is it's not a reflection of what the population is it's a reflection of a certain group of people and that is what we are talking about the barriers that is happening on the internet because if all the men are empowered to contribute to climate change on this global platform that means that they are going to share their story or their perspective about climate change on Wikipedia and we will be listening to perspective and experiences of climate change of our women but we are saying that climate change cannot be solved without including women's voices without improving 100 percent of the voices of the population and we are missing more than I don't know like we have just 10 percent or 9 percent of these voices online so this is what we are saying technology is very powerful too the internet is perusing the internet is power and so we need to be able to bring women in this space as much as possible and that's why in the weekend you guys space we are trying hard to be able to support women so we have this sometimes for events we have this childcare support and all of that because we understand that even almost all having children or have kids that they need to take care of they need to be able to pay because if I have to leave my kids with the money I need to pay the money before I can go anywhere okay this is an extra cost that comes with it if I don't have the money I'm not going anywhere and so women are not empowered they don't have money you look at the jobs in the market men women are going for more of the care jobs jobs that don't pay because we are not getting this because all the men are taking the developer jobs that are earning millions of dollars millions of cities and so they have the money to do whatever they want and when it comes to when we don't have the money so I think it's high time women empower themselves to take up action to be able to also mitigate some of the the challenges that we face when it comes to climate change thank you and yeah just cycling back to what you actually asked about how gender could be mainstream in climate discussions right yeah so looking listen to what my fellow have said it's very true about women being in these spaces having their voices heard I believe through ways like capacity building you see we have like events to sort of help women understand what's going on the climate discussions their workshops their talks their so many events so if we could get women into like those capacity building programs I think that would be a great way right of bringing that inclusivity when it comes to gender like mainstream in the climate discussion aside that I don't think there are certain policies and gender responsive budgets that are made in certain sectors very for instance for me I agree by us because I'm coming from like the tech side because I'm a software engineer but most times you see that certain people actually go saying they put certain budgets for women because you know that oh like there's a possibility that this woman may have a kid and when you have a kid you need a learning or there's certain responsibilities as women that we have to carry out so in order to sort of make it possible to make women be available at the event they make provision for that so if there was more life thrown on gender responsive budgeting right capacity building probably more inclusion for instance we can create conference right I can see like women being represented here but I'm not sure I don't see like equal numbers the ratio is crazy at work is the same thing as a senior software engineer on the back end the ratio is like one to seven like I've held that role like there's so many guys the room the other only woman I think last year it was Joyce Joyce and it wasn't Jesse we had this event at Bollingo spaces and there are a lot of women who signed up in their sheets right but we got there and realized that didn't show up so I was the only woman in the picture and there were like 10 guys and I was sitting in the middle of them like this like and this is a program that was sponsored there was scholarships being given transportation being given all that so why aren't the women showing up it boils down to more of society culture responsibilities people have things going on right so if we promote stand shop don't want to help a burden to be in for look thank you okay I actually want to add up and the woman myself here so let me also add up I think they've all talked about very tangible points personally coming from the open streets mapping youth map is background I can give a scenario so when we are mapping we normally map buildings POI is very important POI roads waterways and stuff but an opportunity was given to a chapter that was purely women they asked them what do you want to map they said they wanted to map spaces where they felt safe spaces where there was security spaces where there were lights in it otherwise the map would have been purely oh there's a building mapped there's a road map but they went a step further including their perspective so I believe as it says we are talking about climate change including perspectives of women who are part of the vulnerable populations who are highly affected by the issues of climate change they'll actually be able to pinpoint the issues that affect them should in case they are affected by climate change and that way we are mitigating and we ensure that focus falls on these particular issues to address them so yes that's my pick anyways also so I'll move to the next question thank you so much for the first four answers you guys gave so this question goes to two of you miss gen gen two when let's do it garner and miss any tophori this is to you guys and our state is again peace this time two minutes two minutes if yeah it's two minutes I'll say thank you and then next okay so the question is how does climate change impact women how does climate change impact women mentioned to your first thank you so much climate change impacts women in various ways which is often disproportionate compared to men in situations where climate change intensifies the workload of women intensify as well for instance in the northern part of Ghana where the land is mostly dry women take on the responsibility to travel far for water for drinking for washing for cooking and most of the times they go along with their children and then in such situations as well women take on the responsibility to take care of the elderly the sick people as well as the victims and their household and communities so moreover climate change impacts the health of women and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable in situations where there's earthquake for instance pregnant women are more vulnerable in terms of their safety and they have less access to health centers and which as a result may spoils them to diseases to infections and even death when we go on climate change affect women as well in terms of food security like I said earlier one third of women are employed in the agricultural sector now when climate change intensifies and the land became becomes so dry women are forced to seek for food they are forced to seek for water to water their plants and all sorts so in that case it affects how women bring food home it affects how women bring food to the household how they are able to provide food to sell to the market to provide foods to cook for their family and also climate change also affects also displaces women and children so like someone said when climate change intensifies for example the video we watch we saw that examples like the tidal waves women are forced or with their children to relocate to other areas where they can find safety where they can find food and shelter and all sorts and lastly climate change impacts women in terms of gender-based violence so when climate change affects women it causes situations where resources becomes scarce in this situation there's a competition between men and women for these resources now that's that's this situation create an environment where create a tense environment where women are more susceptible to gender-based violence of course. Thank you Miss Ophori so as for me I've said it all and I like to save time thank you okay so that last question goes to Miss Badawa of OSM Ghana and Miss Brown so your question is what are some major challenges facing women in the open movement space owing to the fact that there are few women in the space I'll take it again what are some major challenges facing women in the open movement space owing to the fact that there are few women in the space two minutes each okay so with the tele-open movement it sort of revolves around open data I mean tech and like open access to education like open source software I mean and all those things and one of the main things that affects women when it comes to these things are like we are unrepresented I think I mentioned before that when you go to most like boards in open data maybe like open source open anything open you see that the ratio of men to women it's not proportionate it's not even like two is to six or three is to six it's more one is to six or seven or eight or nine you see so we are unrepresented aside that we also have this stereotype or gender bias right where it looks as if women because it's been a voice club for so long when a woman comes there's so much pressure yo there's so much pressure because see they'll put it to like so high standards I mean which is good on some part and you have to live up to it but sometimes it can really create a lot of personal syndrome I say that it's also has the other challenges with more inclusivity because we have to make sure women's voices are heard are seen and all that when it comes to this space so those are examples thank you yeah I think I'm just actually saying it's very true when you come to the space and I've talked about statistics on experiences that we have in the open space how women are not represented and it's due to a lot of underlying factors and now I would like to share an experience some years ago we were doing some research with population council in the central region and we're doing a research about teenage marriages and why like young kids have have children and until now now I'm able to understand the reason why that was happening because we're we're talking to the women most of them are farmers and their farms were not working and so it depended on the hardships that they're having and they had one of their kids to go out there to bring money and how did the kids bring money they have time there and when we talk to these women they get some sort of money from the men and the men also want you know that kind of service to be given to them and that leads them to have them kids and all of that and this terminates their education because they're not able to move on with their education they're able to get skills that they want and they have to be forced to marry these men because once you have a child with them you have to marry them and if you look at global we have about 650 million of people are married before age 18 26 percent of even in Ghana one in five girls are married before between age 18 and 23 which is very terrible and that tells us that women are not getting there this is the challenge we are facing okay we are not getting there because of some of these underlying factors we're getting married early because of hardships that maybe our families are going through they want to just give us off quickly to men so that they would have their peace of mind because taking care of kids is difficult and I am a parent and I know what I'm talking about like to be feeding someone taking care of them and all of that so your parents want to give you off quickly and that will deprive you because your mind is hot and anyone who is minding hot is not scared for education you are like your whole life become messed up and this is happening most of the time for women because if the man who appreciates you you know it doesn't terminate his progress to go to school you will not go to school because you have a child you need to take care of the child are you understanding the underlying factors of your husband to get to that level where they can be educated get that digital skills you are developed by how many women get to be developed okay get to acquire that kind of level of education how many women are getting to their university because marriages are short-cut them childbeats are short-cutting their their vision and all of this is impacting the representation that we are having on the intention of having contributors or participation of women in the digital sex okay so I'm actually learning a lot from policy making to their homes to education to the work spaces to get the women involved we need to get their perspectives addressed we actually need to take a look through their eyes how they are looking through how they are looking to climate issues and even ordinary issues in the various fields we find ourselves in so there's a last question all my panelists it's how can we harness the interest of young ladies to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects I'll take it again how can we harness the interest of young ladies to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects so this time I'll start over there um so I think a great way will be more of outreach but the truth is it's already been done you have so many publications going out okay so for instance I remember last year I shared the wiki 101 with a couple of friends we all agreed to go back and then I was the only one who went to get it so outreach has already been done probably a more in turn form maybe could work I don't know but so far the outreach is there there's so much publication about events and all going out I said that there could be active participation or involvement of communities right for instance today we have different communities being represented here right that's also another way of like making sure that we're already okay just add to what Afii said um it's very important to bring the youth in this space and I say this passionately anytime I do an event I try to seek feedback and I realized from all the feedback and I'm gathering that in as much as we are doing publicity it's not really reaching out there there's still a lot of people who do not know that they can write on Wikipedia and I'm telling you for a fact anytime I do an event I ask for feedback and I'm seeing that a lot of people don't know that they can write on Wikipedia and a lot of people have misconception about what Wikipedia is just because of what we were told by our teachers and for me I'll use myself as an example until 2019 I know from you I could write on Wikipedia all I knew was that I could use Wikipedia and I say this passionately because I was like are Wikipedia existed long ago how come I didn't know that I could actually be empowered to tell my story to write the things that I'm passionate about to be able to provide that kind of information that would be impactful in our global world and until 2019 I didn't know that and it tells me that there's a lot of work that we need to do apart from advocacy we need to build skills and they need to do not know how to do the things that we are asking them to do then now we're telling them write on Wikipedia Wikipedia is good how are we getting them into the space and so it's very important that we take scale building seriously and it's not a rush when I got into the Wikimedia so it took me like a whole year to understand like what is happening because I was like what what is this and the next day I'm here Wikimedia come on the next day I'm here Wikidata I'm hearing all these platforms like and they became so many and I was overwhelmed until someone told me find one platform that you are interested in don't think about every topic find a topic that you are interested in focus on that so if each and every one of us will focus on the little things that we are interested in don't you think that we will bridge the knowledge gap that we've always been fighting to bridge about Africa so this is what I'll say we need to bring the youth in in the topics that are most pressing to them the topic that are most vital to the youth the youth are looking to do something whenever there's a climate conversation we see a lot of the youth so if the youth are interested to fight climate action then we need to bring them in to tell those stories we need to empower them to be able to bridge those knowledge gap online and that's that's the only way I think we can we can do to bring the youth and we also need to support them because the youth are not people who are like a lot of the youth are not employed most of them are in school and all of that so how do we support them to get into these spaces to be able to do that and this is something that we need to really look at if we want to bring the youth on board yeah thank you okay so how do we get the youth to be very practical I know creating awareness is ongoing but the thing is I think people do not pay attention so you become intentional about something that's when you get to know the benefits what I would say we have to do we have to reach out to lots of schools we have to partner them let's um educate these young ones you know some once a month they're like hey ganna be here you know the person told me that actually it will be out of 35 years so nobody 35 years and below we leave them that's when ganna will change and I was talking to them you know also we need the youth the other drivers okay we need them partner with us schools we do schools to schools talks to them creates my awareness why the change comes from there we're going to see a significant change from you know from their time and things I think things will become different so that was our thing thank you thank you so much I think my colleagues have said a lot I just want to emphasize that Wikipedia can continue to promote diverse views to encourage young ladies out there like the representation we have here it can also bring together um aspects female editors so they can train young ladies about the contribution they can make on Wikipedia they can highlight the works that these women are doing when the young ladies are exposed to these women they'll be encouraged to also contribute to the impact that's with media is doing thank you they they are always saying a lot in every question I ask anyways so one thing that kept bringing in my mind as they kept talking is I do interact a lot with the youth and one thing I've discovered is the youth are hungry like they are very hungry like unless you don't ask a question or you give them that platform to ask questions like people can start asking you questions for one hour because they just want to know how can I do this I want to be this how do I do how do I get there and personally for me the my journey as a geographer and a mappa I've always asked questions and most of the people that have mentored me have been men and so this is a call a call do we say a call of action or call to action we've got people around you young people your siblings your friends your cousins even strangers in schools you've got these people around you we could take that call to action up ourselves and actually be able to guide them on the path that they want to be especially in the field of climate and in contribute so at this point I would give each panelist two minutes I know they'll come from my head but I'll give everyone two minutes to just give us your final words whatever you want to share with us so you can you'll take our e-messages so I'll start from me to you have the mic and then we go thank you we've said that looks like you said addressing climate addressing climate considerations is crucial to ensure that the various voices of everyone is considered I think that we can achieve a successful climate change change when we by educating women empowering them as well as granting them the resources they need thank you so much okay so what I'll say is that let's let's be very intentional about the things we do and let's not take it lightly as women let's let's challenge ourselves because I believe we can do more even as I'm sitting here I'm really I'm working you know I'm working and I'm so here we can combine things we can multitask so let's not be afraid and let's take a green pledge and let's say that I pledge to live a sustainable life please let's say together I pledge to live a sustainable life thank you thank you um I think we've all learned so much and my only words that I'll leave with you is every voice is important for solar climate change your voice the voice of the youth the voice of women everyone's voice is very important everyone's story is very important everyone's experience is very important we don't have much research but we have a very good platform that we can be able to do that documentation on it that is Wikipedia and its system projects let's take advantage of these projects and let's tell our story it can be in a form of video it can be in the story of storytelling it can be in the form of documentation thankfully we have the media publishing these stories the happiness about climate impact in the various communities these publications can be used to document stories on Wikipedia and that's the whole point because we're not waiting for anyone to come and do research for us it's going to take a long time just for the sense of global research firm are dedicated to Africa topic not to even talk about just women so we have an opportunity in this platform because when you look at climate change um they're above um 3 000 articles that were identified as climate change topics on English Wikipedia and these topics had more than about 233 million page views that tells you that people are going online seeking for climate information and you and I have the opportunity to tell that story to do that documentation on this global platform to make that information accessible so that even if the people are going to find climate they can see that oh this is how climate change is affecting the people of Ghana or Ganyan women and they are finding somewhere that they want to find but because you're not seeing anything they think that oh Ganyan women are okay so please let's take advantage of this and let's let that to bring more opportunity into our communities and countries thank you to conclude we've had so many things I would just like to say that by we engaging and actively amplifying our voices to be heard we'll be able to represent each other every single body like every single person counts because if we leave it for others to represent us we'll be represented wrongly because the experiences I have it's what I see myself review have and I see myself confident so have so I think we should all be very proactive we've talked so much but it's really nothing if you don't do anything right what the next steps are going to take from this what's a what's a practical thing you do after this are you getting ready to go and register for the other sister conference with Tamali and go and sit down and listen or you're going to take practical steps to make sure that your voice has been heard you're contributing to Wikipedia there's so many contests that offer organizers other wiki and hubs and the rest they organize you have to get involved make your mark be known like you should leave a digital like or even a footprint your life has to matter like you have to be represented there was this AI study down years ago where they realized that to and away like getting the facial recognition of like people generally they didn't test it on blacks because for data sets on blacks there were none so there's white people so you could go and then into scanning you realize that you are not identified even though you're a human being just because there's lack of data from black people so you have to represent yourself like you have to stand up so please do that and the women try and be in space so that we'll not just be one one I thought we'd be differences I see like more women this climate anything we're very proactive about it like there's so many initiatives even from all five trying contribute write articles do something okay thank you I also ask you guys to be able to be successful in the wiki media space join the community okay and go it doesn't take one day so those of you are looking to just kill your soul on one article with please it doesn't have to like just relax and take your time join the community find friends who are in that space and there are so many communities in Ghana we have the wiki open foundation is one of them wiki media Ghana that money group and the aga language groups that in Ghana so if you're interested to join any of this group you can have your passion you're welcome to join it's open and it's free you don't need to pay anything to join any of these communities so we're looking forward to have you all on board so that you take advantage of the various opportunities that we give to our community members thank you thank you so much I think we've got some information from them thank you so much panelists this has been a very insightful discussion I think I I personally I have got a lot of message I'm taking away I pledge to be sustainable I'm going to represent myself I'll make sure that I join a community yeah I got a lot I'm Mr Otsuo with your permission people have questions thank you so we've got 10 minutes for questions so if you've got a question please raise your hand my name is Imano Nija and Ashley there's also president for the investor open agent natural resources the one campus project great project assistant project coordinator for planet net positive alliance and also the founder for global climate change resolution we are into we are focusing on the trade place in sustainability or sustainable development that's economics the environment and the society and mine is a contribution talking about climate change I'm also stating climate change my final year climate change and sustainable development so talking about climate change the impact is affecting all aspects of life leaving no one behind now when I'm talking about vulnerability in Ghana we are crying so much all the time I've been to several conferences and when it gets to gender always women are crying that they are suffering and what's making them so far what's the vulnerability there you know the world was built on the shoulders of men let's not forget that and for women to run that race with women they need to scale up they need to empower themselves and I'm not a fact and one of our panelists was saying that that there was a program that was meant for men to be there but at the end it was only here that represented when I was aspiring for exercise in president I went purposely for a female vice not knowing other females somewhere were against a female who is aspiring for a position so what we have to start working on is to change the narrative in the society you know we came from different backgrounds where there are a lot of narratives that women don't do this women don't do that that kind of entitlement everything men should do that is what we should focus on changing the narrative in the society while in the society women most women are well to do they are working very hard but let's look at the villages that's when most of these women are vulnerable that is where we need to focus much on us currently is investing so much into lgbtq they are doing a ride from basic school investing so much there but what is gonna do in we are just sitting here always talking then don't push the agenda here they are the end we start fighting back so what do we have to do and in a fight in climate change it's our innovation climate change has opened a lot of avenue for us now with the course of an ability money is also a solution to all these our problems because if there's money we will be sleeping because of this lack of money in the system we are all crying so we should be innovative in all our our daily so in everything we are doing if you are not innovative then it means you cannot catch up with the world that is coming and very soon in the next five years we are not going to use digital sorry paper and coin currencies anymore we are going to deal with digital currencies and it has started and if i should ask in this room how many women are exposed or know about digital currency how many a few but when you ask the the guys how many people know about digital currency cryptocurrency bitcoin and the others a lot of guys with their hands so nobody is depriving women of their rights but just that they are relaxed sorry not the most relaxed in this so it's about time we need to start educating right from childhood we need to change the mindset going to schools as you have been stated earlier we need to go to schools and change that mindset otherwise we'll sit here and someone will cook some stories and bring it to Africa besides Ghana to stop the routine the children so we need to champion that action changing the mindset right from childhood then Ghana and Africa are expected thank you thank you but i best to differ remember we are not relaxed that's all all we need is opportunity let me tell you discrimination that's right from the house home when you were a child don't buy you a game and don't buy the lady and something else so you get to know or you like technology look at every baby who likes to fidget things than a girl because they don't buy for the girl you are following your mother's where cook to go and do this so since you know about climate change i know your mindset is different and your generations to come their mindset will be different it's education okay so i'm not putting you but women we are not relaxed all we need is opportunity i will try thank you um i i want to say a story we know there was a funeral that happened one of my uncle passed by and in that funeral like it's not a funeral it was a gajun like before you have a funeral there's a gajun and the chief stood down then he called some men from the gajun all the lenders stood up they said they're going to have some decision and they'll come back all the lenders stood up to do to all the people that stood up for that decision meeting were men and so a woman is asked to speak you dare not speak and that is the culture that we are living in that is the discrimination that we are talking about okay so it's not that women cannot speak or women do not have a voice or women cannot do anything but i think even the opportunity if you are now homes in my mind it's naturally the women are supposed to go and gather their plates and wash okay so that productive time that could have been used to learn something productive the guy maybe is going back to learn something the woman is in the kitchen trying to clean up trying to cook always spending time doing things that are not really going to build skills or maybe home skills but beyond that okay so that's why you will always get the opportunity because you have been given that liberty to be here nobody's actually cooked soup nobody's actually are just saying go go go go go you know and the women they'll say oh today i went here why you wear a cape today like there's so much demands of us in the house so it's it's we need to rather work on our cultural perceptions and give more opportunity consciously to women like equal opportunities to both male and women so that we can all um what's good i know there's a lot of issues but let's see how we can work together to um for much more that's another question yeah um just to highlight what you said right you made a statement that when like the the future or what we have now was built on the backs of men and i quite disagree with that because there have been women who have been influential not even in the science space but generally even right from not even letting me bring religion in but there are women always who have played key roles which you may not see or wish you may not exactly be privy to right yeah so you can't just make that generalization also i agree with my other fellow panelists as we're saying some women most cultural backgrounds you have to go to the kitchen it's not really up for debate please you have to know how to yeah it's not up for debate you can't go in me now arguing with your grandfather that you're not going to cook you're not going to some some about some backgrounds we're quite lenient so maybe as you're growing up you get shs my mom realized that me the cooking i could do but it's not what i really want i don't really want to spend my whole day in the kitchen so i'm on vacation it's rather my brother who will be close to my mom cooking and then maybe on some days when i feel like i do it you see so that's how give me the liberty to explore the things that i really wanted so it's not equal like that it's not flat out some people don't get an opportunity to do the things that they want to do explore i'm sure the reason why and most women don't know about bitcoin i don't know i really saw one hand up in the corner right but probably the other women who knew about bitcoin but they are shy women we don't have sex in yeah i'm sure that women who have heard of bitcoin crypto but they are shy so you just can't put it out there that yeah and how many women know about crypto if you heard about bitcoin before just raise your exactly look at them more than best now exactly women women are not exactly like men for the joint space right in tech because i can speak from tech you have most of the men going for jobs they'll just have one skill though out of the ten skills the ones who you'll be you and they'll get a job but the one who have eight out of ten skills but she was too low applied because she feels like she's not got ten over ten skills but the guy who just one skill let's say php or java he just applied and then he he'll get in like he'll go ahead on the job so it's more about we women like reaching and changing the way we think right and probably do more capacity building like this encouragement to groups empowering and all that but i don't believe women have so much of a we're not relaxed at all let me tell you i am michael michael from kufuruya technical university kt with what you were saying yes like my kid says i wanted to become a mechanical engineer but then my kid says always has this passion that wants to become a robotics engineer and seeing being in that space seeing the challenges you would go through i also sacrificed and entered into mechatronics just to get such knowledge and help with that and it has really helped me so i don't really base their forces on the fact that two men are not being given the chance they have the chance to do everything but then i think we just need to give them some extra more attention for to to bring them into that but then like say you give the baby girl a dog if you give her a game she wouldn't like that because most of her friends are already having those so yes that is they feel like that is into this yes they feel yes i am like most of the time they feel that is in this and also with with what the first meeting and then i would want to throw more light on that when in any time i go for these seminars or conferences like this i mostly find out that i am the first kufuri a technical investing person doing that and it's it's it's really a problem to me because i i fight with four friends to organize a great tertiary council which but then coming here to the afterlife there are such small things that are happening that you don't even have any idea on and talking of climate change and it affects how you go to the prime law district the king has seen for instance a friend of mine my very nice friend he died because of garam see and that you can't do that you can't do anything about it because you feel like those people doing the garam say they are backed by the kings and other stuff and you can't just tell them to go and tell them that they should stop and even the youth within that society they are going to die because that is what is giving them money and they cannot stop doing that and the fact is even in my grandma's soul our family land they go go on to these chinese people to farm on because she said that she cannot do a farm to reach that state to get down and that the chinese will give her his dancing and it's it's really it's really becoming a problem i entered into entrepreneurship go papa it's one of my projects that we are trying to deal with the lg2 to find a way to get food that maybe they can change but then looking at the long term i don't really see that becoming or helping to solve that issues and trying to be in our space trying to help like you i just don't know what to do i just don't know how to do it in as much as i'm trying to mobilize and then get a seminar and maybe if you can get up or get to come and talk and direct for people with such issues to also get some issues on that because and i think of all their technical university is invested because most of the information you don't have why is he i saw a post of them on LinkedIn that was why i was able to apply and then get some information about this seminar and today i asked some of his friends that have they ever been to a conference seeing a character and all the technical investors they still see out that it is a polytechnic or something but it is that kind of electronic sphere in Ghana so it is a particular program so i think most of these informations and other stuff should also be spread out to this technical university you're eating how you are hungry to and then you want to make policies or change policies that already you have seen but i don't think we have the information on that so i'll be happy very very good submission and for information i know five kt people i've met five kt people on my previous project with Morgan Stanley i work with like five kt people who i didn't know they even had a megatronics program and we relaxed your sister you said if you want your sister again you think well she probably don't like it because probably she wants to venture into you wanted to venture into robotics right robotics so in my third year of shs i want to agree girls by the way i represented Ghana at the world robot olympiad in russia right and when he said robotics was quite funny these opportunities they are there but they are not there you have to look for it you see and i'm happy that you are a big brother me i wish i had a big brother like i would suffer like this like i would have hassled certain hustle i mean i have great people like mauto have like people who are dead support me and all but i wish i had a big brother who'd have given me more insights who'd have gone in front of me but i have to do that for my brother you see and i'm happy i'm doing that like going to megatronics so that at least your sister right up she gets there she already have an upper hand but they seem more scared to robotics there are so many stem fields like so many stem groups joining us outside i think he's for make our space deal with like robotics so ev3 nxt also iot labs there are so many groups in Ghana that are involved in this that can solve hundreds of interests that our sister would be like interested in to like level up when it comes to those skills also you mentioned that um you saw this link from ycc in their channel and you applied the truth is my experience i want to take two right and there are certain programs like bank of america merrillage golden sacks if you don't know if you don't search you'll never find there are so many people who will apply from let's say asher see like from different schools but when we end up at camp nski for three days you see tech one k2 the idea sees i'm not gonna lie um they call one or two you want one right asher to 2030 and see our schools don't have that and systems or groups or department that go and look for opportunities for us so if you don't have to look for it on your own it's it's really over you you you'll not be there and you also don't know these programs are there and also when you have friends in different universities like why not at all my friend is in asher so she'll be like i i think have you had a great program it's gonna help you understand or maybe you browse and find things that are going on in kana that's the only way for you to get involved in these things there's a particular page called seo africa i didn't know them till after school or like final year they really put out opportunities about this aside we keep climates and all that they put out opportunities for you to level up your career after school because see our mobile government for years it actually equip us for the outside world when it comes to job markets especially in tech you need to take the step outside else you will not be able to get to the global standard even the national standard you will not be able to compete with other people we have different universities in kana but what in that is only a particular university that brings out or chairs out like a particular quality of people who get good jobs when they're out that school is doing something different and since we we don't find ourselves in those schools we have to also look out for ourselves we have to be very very strategic you mentioned creating the council right so you have people partners on this and pull up you can't interact to them connect and try and set up something on your own during my third or fourth year we my badge in the back behind me where the where the badge that was the google developer student club to take right i remember i literally led the first session of that if you don't take those initiatives nobody will and i think this is a good case because that's all the opportunities going around and you've been missing them and you come out of school and realize that oh my god like these things are things i could have like grabbed a cupcake she gets it so you have to look out for yourself you have to be proactive and i'm really happy that you're looking out for the staff so you could try and then get into these kind of programs like just just try out i can't so that's that's okay i just want to use this opportunity to invite all of you to be like active contributors to begin here projects by being part of art and feminism campaigns i spoke about art and feminism so you can organize an event in your campuses every year is an all year round program but majority of the events are in may um and large but all of you here you don't need to be an aspect you can be very into wikipedia and you can organize an event in your campus we are looking at students especially young women because i work with an organization that cares so much about the gender gap and information gap on the internet in general so um i just wanted to invite you all you can get in touch with the organizers if you want to be involved we provide micro funding between one fifty dollars to three hundred dollars so just let them know how you want to organize it and help people thank you thank you so much my panelists and thank you audience for being attentive it's been very interactive um i'm actually excited about the questions that came in the comments as well thank you all so much too i do have something to add i'll reiterate it okay so as uh afi was talking she made mention of the fact that the four years in school is not enough it's true it's not enough like if you're going to actually focus and say you're going to rely on the knowledge you gain in the classroom for four years no it's not enough it don't do anything like it won't trust me so join a community on campus learn to volunteer like develop a habit of volunteering because wikimedia actually relies on volunteering like so learn to volunteer learn to give to the community you do not know the number of people you are impacting when you volunteer i remember uh any session you said when you edit on wikimedia you are affecting one billion people per month so please let's volunteer let's network mr otwell is very particular on that network go around talk to people so as we are here let's take advantage of this opportunity network talk to people i do not like network i'm a very shy person but i'm doing my best from network so let's go just go to someone say hi i'm from here what did you hear me i didn't hear anything what did you hear tell me something something just just just something just have a conversation network volunteer join a community and then take it from there you you don't know where to take you but i'm sure to take you somewhere that you indian you'll be grateful that you actually took that step so thank you once again my panelist it has been a very great session and i'm grateful mr otwell for the opportunity to moderate i am really really grateful so thank you so much please we may have our seats normally they would have said all too soon but i'm doing this dramatically wrong so we already say all too soon what i would say is that finally finally finally we are at the end of day one and very grateful to our wonderful panelists a few announcements before we leave tomorrow is not going to be a talk show it's going to be a work show tomorrow whatever you have had you're going to practice you're going to see what you can do you're going to see how it can affect how you can evolve to evolve you see the open knowledge resources available so tomorrow is going to be a workshop come along with your laptops we have internet around everything bring your laptops build your smartphones come along and then let me point this information to people who were selected for scholarships for scholarship for this program that they were selected for transportation scholarships those who were selected tomorrow please come along with the email confirmation they i'm told the team sent an email confirmation to selected participants come along with them in the course of the in the program they would give the transportation scholarships to them and i know that what they considered 60 percent females and 40 percent male so that next time you will not see that they don't have money they can't afford transportation if they can't export we are giving them camp so if you don't come then it means that women you have yourself to be blamed there's a book called the girls are not to blame i'm also bringing a new term to the first century women are to blame because if you go to the application list you will like that later 40 percent of them were male but this one moved around everywhere so me i am saying that tomorrow women more many more will say shy me please come along i see we said tomorrow is workshop so tomorrow we are going to actually take you to how to do all these things practical there will be a few dead people be taking through trainings workshops i i i will talk more again if we can come around there you will see some areas you can even edit life there will be some current information in terms of our and this is in terms of our climate policies so really as soon as it says it you look for the reference then you update Wikipedia content with it if it doesn't do that i'll do that myself personally so that we can give you how to do some of these things so tomorrow please we are coming the time for tomorrow is nine nine to ten is networking and breakfast so networking you come you see your network is your net worth okay now the work is to the WRTH and then WEALTH all the two how they value you would depend on your network and the money you have at the point also depend on your network me they don't think that i'm there to spy on them so you see your network so put that network now in the 21st century the currency we use is not actually money the currency is network i want people like tomorrow and i think they also talk about some of these things i'll give him some people talk about networking and how some of us me most of the troubles are just recently when the u.s. embassy came around they were doing this conference full time and whatever my network the u.s. recommended me so i was there when they sent me a mail that's the they are having a conference for West African teachers they won't become a talk about climate change i didn't know the u.s. ambassador i u.s. ambassador to get a call when they were down for i don't even but then and then they went down to me show me i was in my somewhere in my in my village on the field when i had down there then quickly i looked at it i said okay this one will be good opportunity let me then i have to somebody recommended me i didn't send a cv but they had they are already called for people to send their cv so when they went to uh still somebody because of recommendation i didn't even apply one they didn't apply i didn't even send my cv what they looked at was my LinkedIn profile so when i came they were telling me things about myself i didn't even know the person who introduced me i think the public's affair officer is it yeah data at the u.s. embassy and the guy who introduced i didn't even know that he they were saying about me no those guys kind of he said they have gone to my LinkedIn profile looked at all my posts and things they were saying they made me big i need to have small so that is it it's network network network now let me give you an example confidence for instance i just met her once he came over to you i realized she has potential so now do you think that if somebody calls me in kumansi that oh they are already programmed in a car they want somebody who is enthusiastic and somebody who is who has the seal for this one i just confidence is there that is that network the way she goes she will never come home empty handed because the way i heard him at the end of the panel is how far that's it so let's all network it's very important because that is a currency we are using now to the first century let's network let's network i told you i guess we see other people buy it and buy another phone jimmy just find out what about jimmy i just saw him then he has e-connected me to you know this was anybody let's wait this somebody has been at the science conference then she just came to me i already you are presenting how you're putting about okay so this is in contact i didn't really be able to scan what's up to get that's where i learned that you can't what's up you need to see number so you scan then you get you don't know say your it person what's up give me your number give me that this was a village taste yes and then i learned it so now who do i go to play this i show oh no no just give me a what's up then i'll come yeah there you are hey science magic science doing magic so please network please network is a currency don't let mr martin be just like that if you don't know about why is he see the latest i've talked to go to him how do you want to become talk about why is he see why is he see the way he lives around with him a lot of opportunities today i was some of the various in there when i was going to the music i saw series of that he was going to see a center around so before you get any video requirements there you are don't let me talk to you tomorrow i'll talk more on networking and how it can build you up so that if you think oh me i'm shy you i'm shy what the size are you gonna be jumping don't be shy okay don't be shy go to somebody what do you lose when you go and ask sister what is your name i want to be your friend career professional network what is high about this let me edit it and tomorrow you continue so to cut the long story short tomorrow we are coming here the announcements are two please come along with your laptops your smartphones or whatever it is that you can use to edit because you are going to do the live edit and then we take people to how to edit and everything max only be around is a facilitator will be there it will be are you coming tomorrow she said yes so will be is coming tomorrow Pfizer is there we keep that up and everything Pfizer will do that and then um our senior most addict to is around people are pointing out so it's more this one is here before all of them so that if you say you won't come you don't be a telly no it's there so it's more you are coming right yeah i think we told you to sign the morning 30 of the reform but but they said they want to see you tomorrow too this is not me saying it to so you can't be here you have a session for that so thank you very much and then um but you can't be long story short thank you for coming you can't be here you are the scholarship please come along with your confirmatory emails the team will send you out to the backita you have for your scholarship somebody said no oh yeah you are by now you see i'm ready to work with me so that you see what will happen in the absence of other questions the way we see it tomorrow the time is nine please there are some drinks there for us because um we tell about the bottles this one is glass drink you know that they didn't go and buy canned drinks we didn't go and buy plastic bottle drink we bought glass so it's there please drink something cool and chill your system and leave thank you very much if you have water bottles tomorrow please bring them if you have water bottles tomorrow bring them so that we minimize on the water team member has to see it open 20 miles please tomorrow i hope you are away you have a presentation tomorrow yeah confidence yes you have a workshop the training workshop i'm sure about the mentoring yes okay so thank you very much any other questions please any other questions we are off time so in the name of the one segment wait in the same room we are ending i know he said he said please know that today we are coming to lay to go and teach others whatever you lay how to do it to go and teach others and those who seem to know you're supposed to register on the effect package it has not done that you are never going to come check for the scholarship package because they want to see you know me so if you have no way to take on the makeup tools you are never going to play if you have no way to take on the makeup tools you will see the scholarship they sent you a bill to register on the makeup tools if you have no way to sell on the makeup tools please it's like i thought we'll see the scholarship if you are if you don't know what the makeup tool is like you didn't accept the scholarship so you are not you are not part of it but it is a media partner to be seen but they don't want to have them i think they will be for come any morning please no they don't want to give them up for their farm when they go back and take their day yes they are great business they are a media partner going to put it in tomorrow today we are going to get a video of the way we play in Trita or MIT let me put it that way and i'm going not i'm going to do it but i'm going to come back is hoping i'll do it so please let let open the video and the impressions for our media partner to be sure that it's at all thank you thank you