The second TechWomen US State Department mentoring program Delegation for 2015 will be to Tunisia. We leave for North Africa in just a few weeks! Delegate mentors from Bright Roll, World Bank, Mozilla, Symantec, Cisco, SolarCity and other Silicon Valley companies are trading travel plans and reading up on our destination. Some of the articles that have been recommended:
- Tunisia: The Next Big Travel Destination by Joshua Hammer and Cathrine Wessel (3 January 2014)
- The gender fault line in Tunisia – Women’s rights fail reality check despite advanced laws that promote equality and freedom. by Ahmed El Amraoui, Rabii Kalboussi (25 Oct 2014)
- Introducing Tunisia by Lonely Planet (2015)
- Tunisia – The World Factbook by the US CIA (2015)
- Archaeological Site of Carthage by UN World Heritage Convention (2015)
- Carthage by Wikipedia (2015)
Two of the TechWomen alumnae from Tunisia whom we hope to visit during our trip are honorees in the TechWomen Emerging Leaders from Africa and the Middle East project:
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