In light of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Fast Company magazine featured their annual list of most influential women in technology. This year, they selected five women in six categories (entrepreneurs, advocates, gamers, media, brainiacs and executives). With this week’s topic in mind, I want to highlight some of the women whose work relates to mobile advocacy.
Cher Wang (Executive)
Cher Wang is the founder and chairman of High Tech Computers (HTC) who specialize in manufacturing smartphones. HTC manufactures one out of every six smartphones in the American market today. Wang’s company is currently working on 4-G phones for Verizon and T-Mobile. Google and Microsoft rely on HTC’s services as they look to the future of their smartphone production, as HTC was the first company to offer the Android.
Limor Fried (Entrepreneur)
Limor Fried capitalized on her background in electrical engineering and computer science to successful build her company, Adafruit Industries. Adafruit makes DIY “hardware hacking” gadgets. One of Fried’s early pet projects was developing a device to disable all nearby cell phones (illegal, but amazing!). Fast Company magazine proclaimed her a DIY goddess who aims to make electrical engineering “exciting, cool, and fun.”
Katrin Vercias (Advocate)
Mobile phones have “leap-frogged” computers in many parts of the world as a means for advocacy organizations to connect with those they are trying to help. Vercias created MobileActive.org, an offline and online meeting place for people from all over the world – who are working within the mobile advocacy space – to connect and compare notes on their projects. This process of sharing information, Vercias says, has facilitated creative progress. Fast Company magazine quotes Vercias on the power of mobile advocacy: “…because it is so ubiquitous, [mobile technology] is having an impact that is as significant as the invention of the alphabet.”
See the full list of Fast Company magazine’s influential women here.
Photo credit to Fast Company magazine
Cher Wang (Executive)
Cher Wang is the founder and chairman of High Tech Computers (HTC) who specialize in manufacturing smartphones. HTC manufactures one out of every six smartphones in the American market today. Wang’s company is currently working on 4-G phones for Verizon and T-Mobile. Google and Microsoft rely on HTC’s services as they look to the future of their smartphone production, as HTC was the first company to offer the Android.
Limor Fried (Entrepreneur)
Limor Fried capitalized on her background in electrical engineering and computer science to successful build her company, Adafruit Industries. Adafruit makes DIY “hardware hacking” gadgets. One of Fried’s early pet projects was developing a device to disable all nearby cell phones (illegal, but amazing!). Fast Company magazine proclaimed her a DIY goddess who aims to make electrical engineering “exciting, cool, and fun.”
Katrin Vercias (Advocate)
Mobile phones have “leap-frogged” computers in many parts of the world as a means for advocacy organizations to connect with those they are trying to help. Vercias created MobileActive.org, an offline and online meeting place for people from all over the world – who are working within the mobile advocacy space – to connect and compare notes on their projects. This process of sharing information, Vercias says, has facilitated creative progress. Fast Company magazine quotes Vercias on the power of mobile advocacy: “…because it is so ubiquitous, [mobile technology] is having an impact that is as significant as the invention of the alphabet.”
See the full list of Fast Company magazine’s influential women here.
Photo credit to Fast Company magazine
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