Hifza Shahzad on Gender Equality in Pakistan and Technology - S1E5

20-year-old Hifza Shahzad is a second-year student in computer science at Oslo Metropolitan University. She moved from Pakistan to Norway with her family at the age of 5.  In 2019, Hifza attended UN WSIS hackathon - #Hack4Education, and her team came up with SiDo (Sew It), a mobile application to empower women in Pakistan through sewing and employment, and won top prize to participate the Summer School in Geneva. She is involved in other projects such as an app that translates sign language to text and audio, and Astelle, a project where children are able to express themselves through art. Like what we do? Support our staff by buying us a cup of coffee at www.ko-fi.com/theoslodesk. Buy us 7 cups, you will automatically become our Early Bird member of The Oslo Desk. Cheers for tuning in.