January 26, 2016
Global Tech Leaders of the Diaspora: 10 African Innovators to Watch In 2016
UNITED KINGDOM: Ethel Cofie, Founder, Women in Tech Africa
Cofie is a Mandela Fellow for President Obama’s Young African Leaders initiative(YALI) whose expertise on tech and leadership has been  featured in BBC and CNN. As founder of Women in Tech Africa, she initiated the 1st Pan African meetup of woman in tech and was shortlisted for the UN GEM Tech Award for  work supporting women in ICT. She also sits on numerous boards, including Social Media week Lagos.
“The problems that African women in tech face are not very different from the ones female techies in many other parts of the world also come across,” she said in a recent interview. “Yet, these challenges, coupled with some Africa-specific problems like power shortages and broadband inaccessibility, create an uphill task for women wanting to enter the industry and develop the high-level technical skills required in order to progress. Yet, I know there is progress, and the examples are many.”