Manama – 03 Nov 2018: Zain Bahrain, a leading telecommunications provider in the Kingdom, has signed of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Developer Group Manama (GDG Manama), a Google-approved community of developers in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in efforts to further promote Zain’s leadership role in empowering women in technology.
Zain Bahrain and GDG Manama will collaborate on several workshops and initiatives hosted by GDG Manama under the theme of Women TechMakers. The MoU will also see GDG Manama using Zain’s facilities to host the activities, as well as gaining access to Zain employees for knowledge sharing and exchange opportunities, aimed at empowering women and helping them to flourish in the fields of technology and technology entrepreneurship.
The MoU was signed between Abdulla bin Khalid Al Khalifa, Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at Zain Bahrain, and Lana Alattar, Founder and Lead of GDG Manama.
Abdulla bin Khalid Al Khalifa, Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at Zain Bahrain, said: “Zain Bahrain has always been committed to playing a vital role in empowering women in the Kingdom to become leaders in the technological field. Our new MoU with GDG Manama falls in line with our strategic approach directed at supporting talent development in the Kingdom. Zain Bahrain implements numerous training programs and initiatives dedicated to developing and supporting the professional growth of women across various domains. We look forward to collaborating with GDG Manama to further build women’s technological skills through new learning experiences.”
Zain Bahrain is renowned for providing new and innovative initiatives that will raise the profile of the local market, build employee competencies, and align with the values of Bahrain Vision 2030.
Source : https://www.bh.zain.com/en/zainbahrain/google-devloper-group
Nobel Laureates
Further information: List of female Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 49 times between 1901 and 2017. One woman, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, has been honored twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 48 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2010. 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine.[2]
Chemistry
2018 – Frances Arnold
2009 – Ada E. Yonath
1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie
1911 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Physics
2018 – Donna Strickland
1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1903 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Physiology or Medicine
2015 – Youyou Tu
2014 – May-Britt Moser
2009 – Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 – Carol W. Greider
2008 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
2004 – Linda B. Buck
1995 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1988 – Gertrude B. Elion
1986 – Rita Levi-Montalcini
1983 – Barbara McClintock
1977 – Rosalyn Yalow
1947 – Gerty Cori
Fields Medal
Maryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Internet in Bahrain
Bahrain has been connected to the internet since 1995, and made it readily available to its citizens. The country’s domain suffix is ‘.bh‘. A 2004 study showed a liberal filtering system is used in Bahrain, one which can be easily bypassed, however more recent events have shown more sophisticated and pervasive filtering. In January 2009, Bahrain has started blocking a vastly increased number of sites through the Information Affairs Authority (IAA). The new filtering has had a noticeable impact in internet access speeds for all traffic.
In 2010, there were about 694,000 internet users in Bahrain, or 55% of the population. According to the World Bank, over 90% of the population is connected to the internet between 2010-2014. This later rose to 96.4% (an estimated 1.29 million online) in 2015, thus making Bahrain the country with the highest internet penetration percentage in the Middle East.