Application for the 2017 Tech Women Program is still open! An initiative first announced during President Obama’s Entrepreneurship Summit on April 28, 2010 – The vision is a reality in which educational, cultural, and professional opportunities transcend borders to foster a peaceful and interconnected world where all people achieve their full potential, think and act as global citizens, and build inclusive, thriving communities.

So far the program has women from Cameroon, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe and in 2015, expanded to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The 2017 program is expected to have women from Pakistan.

Below are the criteria for the 2017 Tech Women Program:

Applicants must:

Be a woman with, at minimum, two years full-time professional experience in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math)
Have, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree/four year university degree or equivalent
Be proficient in written and spoken English
Be citizens and permanent residents of Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan or Zimbabwe at the time of application, and while participating in the program
Be eligible to obtain a U.S. J-1 exchange visitor visa
Not have applied for an immigrant visa to the United States, or participated in a visa lottery in the past five years
Not hold U.S. Citizenship or be a U.S. legal permanent resident

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