| Challenge yourself in a New Way |
I just attended a project review today where the project was running on time and on budget, meeting every milestone and producing every deliverable… yet the strategic objectives of the project where not met. The project was run mechanically and simply failed to produce impact.
How many people around us go through their daily lives mechanically? How many consider that they are doing a good job? From the outside the kids are OK, the pay is OK, the neighbors are green with envy, and the world is in order it seems.
How many times did we see something wrong? How many times did we look the other way? How many times did we feel that we could make a difference? How many times did we actually make a difference? There is always no time to do what we want it seems. We cannot afford to waste our time, lose needed energy, face the consequence of a failure, or enter in confrontation with someone.
The challenge my friends is change… The passage from feeling to action… The passage from strategic objectives to implementation of meaningful projects… The challenge is to leave our comfort zone and find the time to do something different, something else. The challenge is to commit for a cause that is not paid for and to enjoy the internal reward that giving can have. The challenge is to reorganize our priorities around our families and work of course, but also around community work. Someplace we can give back, and perhaps we can make a difference in some small specific ways.
WIT offers you the opportunity to expand your circle of influence. Volunteering with WIT can make you feel the priceless internal reward of giving back. I guarantee that you will grow and learn in turn.
Challenge yourself to find the time for volunteerism and community activities.
Together, we can make a difference!
Salam Yammout
President, Women in IT
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| WIT GALA DINNER |
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WIT 1st GALA DINNER
Thursday 3 April 2008 - 8:30 pm
GEFINOR ROTANA HOTEL (Clemenceau)
Come and bring your friends to the very first WIT Gala Dinner. The event is a celebration of WIT accomplishments to date and will be attended by WIT members, their friends, the ICT community, new potential members, the business community, and donors and supporters.
The event is also a fund raiser for WIT who is now expanding its activities and needs operational funds for activities that are not typically covered by projects funds.
Reserve your calendars and tickets early by calling Madeleine at 01 750442, or contacting any WIT board member you know.
Tickets are LBP 100,000 per person.
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| British Council Women at Work |
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Women at Work is an exchange program funded by the British Council and aims to involve professional women from the MENA region (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunis) together with professional women from UK to participate in reciprocal shadowing visit.
If you are interested in being part of this program, and travel to England for one week to be hosted by a professional company in your field of work then host your British partner in Lebanon for another week, please contact Madeleine at melhelou@wit.org.lb
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| Participation in Women in Technology Regional Conference |
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Hanane Abi Chakra, Nada Hamzeh, and Layal Abou Ajram represented WIT at the MEPI Women in Technology MENA Conference held in Amman, Jordan. The WIT delegates got introduced to their counterparts from the different Arab countries. The Lebanese delegation was pleasantly surprised at the level of women activism in the Gulf countries and Oman. The various delegates shared experiences and lessons learned.
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| Career Paths in Engineering Workshop |
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WIT organized, in partnership with the Women in Engineering section of the IEEE NDU Student Branch a workshop entitled “Career Paths in Engineering and Technology” on 8 March 2008 at the NDU Campus. Five women, at different stages of their careers and in different sub-ICT fields, shared their experience with around 120 Engineering students from NDU, AUB, and BAU. The students asked a lot of questions and had many interrogations about their future… The gender issue was also brought up relating to the role of woman in the engineering field. The speakers were Hala Makarem (independent consultant), Tania Mazraani (Berytech), Odille Abou Mrad (Computer Associates), Maysa Yaman (Cedarcom), and Nathalie Awad (New Horizons).
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| Peace Scholarships |
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WIT has been selected as the lead partner for the Institute of International Education (IIE) in Lebanon for this USAID funded project that consists of offering a full scholarship to thirty young men and women from various Arab countries to spend their third year of university in the United States. Applications have been received from the Lebanese University, Balamand University, Red Cross, Lebanese Transparancy Association, and other NGOs.
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