Some 90% of ICT specialists in the Czech Republic are men. A grant from the Velux Foundations will help social enterprise Czechitas to change this by expanding its affordable computer training for women and girls.
Recife, Brazil’s very own Silicon Valley, is a regeneration success story, but it is mainly white, middle class people who are benefitting from its transformation from ghost town to tech hub.
A report by the innovation foundation Nesta looks at ways to bring democracy into the 21st century. Panellists at the launch had sharpened their knives.