The International Network for Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) recognized the contributions of Dr Marlene Kanga to women in Science Technology Engineering and mathematics (STEM) with the 2021 INWES Distinguished Service Award.
The Award has been presented “in recognition of her outstanding contribution at both the national and international levels, her effective leadership of engineering ...
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First ever international benchmark for good governance, ISO 37000:2021 Governance of Organizations – Guidance was published on 14 September 2021.
ISO 37000:2021 Governance of organizations – Guidance was developed by the ISO technical committee ISO/TC 309. WFEO is a category A Liaison representative to this Technical Committee. WFEO Immediate Past President Dr Marlene Kanga was a ...
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The WFEO Committee on Energy organized a symposium devoted to “Energy transition and Covid-19 crisis: the role of engineers” on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th October 2021.
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted our economies and our lifestyles, but both climate and biodiversity emergencies are still with us. New health, economic, political and societal ...
Continue Reading →The massive open online course is offered in both English and French and uses real-life case studies from across Canada to demonstrate the practical application of WFEO’s 10 principles of sustainable development and environmental stewardship for engineers.
The course is completed entirely online and can be completed at each participant’s own pace. After all six previous editions of the course, an overwhelming majority of participants have attested to the high quality of the training content and agreed ...
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The WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering (WIE) in collaboration with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), the Federation of African Engineering Organisations (FAEO) ...
Joined by over 12,000 enterprises from 153 countries and regions, the 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), under the theme “Towards Digital Future and Service Driven Development”, kicked off on 2 September 2021 in Beijing.
CIFTIS serves as a platform for China to share development opportunities with rest of the ...
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The WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering in collaboration with the International Science Council (ISC), the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) and the United Nations University organized the webinar “Intersectionality of gender, climate ...
The third Summit of the African Women Engineers organized by the Committee of Women in Engineering of the Federation of African Engineering Organization was held virtually on 4th December, 2020.
The theme of the symposium was “Achieving Gender Equality in Africa – Perspective of Female Engineers. The programme had about 120 Women Engineers ...
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UNDESA, UNESCO, WFEO and UN Office of Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology have just released “Resource Guide on Artificial Intelligence Strategies” in June 2021.
This document is a continuation of the work on the STI for SDGs Roadmaps focusing on one specific area: AI strategy development. ...
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WFEO and its Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders organized the HLPF 2021 side event “Deploying Global Youth Capacity in UN Policy and Engineering for SDG 13” on Friday, 09 July 2021, as a side event of the 2021 edition of the High-level Political Forum
The crises of ...
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