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Ever since we started organizing our +Barcamp Ghana  events, I've wanted the numbers of women attending these events to increase. We started with a huge tech focus, the theme for the first event was "The Business and Tech Renaissance". We had only 2 female resource personnel - +Estelle Akofio-Sowah  who was with Busy Internet at the time and  +Esi Cleland-Yankson  of Afrochic. I believe tech and forward-thinking events held with a focus on women are really important in increasing the network and net work of both interlocking communities. Enter the  First Pan-African Women in Tech Meetup .  It's happening on Wednesday August 2. Some of my friends are involved as organizers or speakers - all awesome young women - +Ethel Cofie   +Enyo Kumahor   +Ella Ethel Mbewe   +Chisenga Muyoya  and  +Barbara Birungi  who I am still yet to meet. Check out this VimTechList post on  #VimTechList: 11 young female African technology leader...

Director at the GhanaThink Foundation which mobilizes and organizes talent for the primary benefit of Ghana. #AskAto pic.twitter.com/yXSLI4zhh6 — Vodafone Ghana (@VodafoneGhana) July 15, 2014 My friend +Ivy Enyo Nam  had approached me about being featured in a series that Vodafone Ghana was going to undertake. The working title was #PowerfulPeople. This is the message I received from them - Based your influence within the Ghanaian community on Twitter. We will like to officially invite you to interact with the Vodafone Ghana social media platforms (especially twitter) under the topic “ Using Social Media for Good” . This happened on Tuesday 15 th  July, 2014. It was to be between 12pm-1pm,  a Q&A session on Twitter with hashtag #AskAto . It was hoped that I would answer all questions directed at teaching Vodafone's followers, amongst others how to use social media more effectively. Well, 1 hour turned out into much more. I had so many question...