Rebecca Ryakitimbo

Affiliation:	TechChix Tanzania
Country:	Tanzania

Rebecca Ryakitimbo is a Co-founder and Director of Development of TechChix-Tanzania.

Rebecca is also a writer with most of her articles featured on the Arusha Times.

Career History

CASEC(February 2017-Present)

In addition to her work with TechChix-Tanzania Rebecca as serves the role of Project Coordinator for the equal rights to quality education project.

TechChix Tanzania(February 2016-Present)

As the Director of Development for TechChix-Tanzania her key roles include sourcing for partners, organizing events and new activities to be performed, leading a team of dedicated female technicians/engineers to reaching there prime objective of inspiring girls to join fields in STEM which is science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This also includes promoting women rights online via developing policies and awareness on the involvement of women in internet governance.

Arusha Times(September 2016-Present)

Rebecca serves as a regular contributor to the local news paper of Arusha Times on ICT topics.

Arusha Node Marie (June 2016-January 2017)

Rebecca worked as the Project Coordinator for ANM a society working towards ICT inclusion in education by providing free internet connection and resources to public owned schools within the vicinity of Arusha town in collaboration with Habari Node Limited,an internet service provider.

Education

Rebecca holds a BST in Electronics and communication technology from University of Eastern Africa,Baraton(2015).