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Intermezzo: Quiz - Do You Know Her?
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Hi everyone,
I thought you would enjoy an "intermezzo" as we transition into this week's
theme "Supporting Young Women in ICT4D Projects." Stay tuned for a
summary of last week's discussions, and an introduction to the new
theme.
In the meantime, here is some ICT trivia for those interested!
Maja Andjelkovic
Discussion Moderator
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Do You Know Her?
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Read each statement and see if you can guess the name of the
woman mentioned. Then read on to see if you were correct!
1.
There are five visionaries who changed the face of technology
- the unsung Heroes of Computing. These five include a woman.
***Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 - 1852). The other
four are Douglas Engelbart (1929- ), Vannever Bush (1890 - 1974),
Alan Turing (1912-1954), and J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990). ***
2.
She is credited with the idea for the first computer program.
In 1979 a programming language developed by the US Department of
Defence was named in her honour.
***Ada Lovelace, Lady Byron. The programming language was named
"Ada" in her honour. ***
3.
As early as 1953, she invented the compiler - the intermediate
program that translates English language instructions into machine
language.
***Rear Admiral Grace Hopper of the US Navy. ***
4.
She has been hailed as the "most influential woman on the
Internet". She was the first interim chairperson of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and earlier,
also the chair of Electronics Frontier Foundation (EFF). She has
also written the book Release 2.1.
***Esther Dyson.(Source: Ken Freed, Media Visions Journal,
www.media-visions.com/vis-dyson.html). She is Chairman of
Edventure Holdings, which publishes Release 1.0, a monthly
newsletter and sponsors the annual PC Forum. ***
5.
Newsweek has honoured her as one of the "women shaping the 21st
century." In 1996, she founded the Webby Awards, hailed as the
"online Oscars" by the Time magazine.
***Tiffany Shlain, 32.(Source:
www.webbyawards.com/main/in_motion/shlain_bio.html). ***
6.
She is Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), which launched the World e-Inclusion
programme in October 2000. She joined the company in July 1999 and led
the HP merger with Compaq, which was completed in May 2002.
***Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina (Source:
www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.html and
www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/ciic_01.html). ***
7.
Ananova said: "Hello, World! Here's the news - and this time it's
personal." But, who is Ananova?
***She is a virtual newscaster at www.ananova.com on duty round the
clock. The site was launched in April, 2000. She is an invention of
the British Press Association (BPA). ***
8.
All of us surf the Internet but she claims that she coined the term
"surfing the Internet." She is also known as Net Mom.
***Jean Armour Polly in 1992. (Source: www.netmom.com). ***
9.
She is founder and CEO of eHow, a Web site that provides 15,000
step-by-step how-to solutions.
***Courtney Houston. (Source: ehow.com). ***
10.
She has written Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information
Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (Cambridge 2001), outlining the
debate between the cyber optimists (who see Internet as a great leveller)
and cyber pessimists (who see greater inequality emerging) and examining
the evidence in 179 countries worldwide.
*** Pippa Norris, Associate Director (Research) of the Joan Shorenstein
Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and
McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John P. Kennedy School of
Government. (Source: ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/biograph.htm
and www.pippanorris.com). ***
Adapted from: http://www.i4donline.net/issue/sept-oct03/quiz.htm
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