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Women in IT & Azeri architecture

Paul ColettiPaul Coletti|11:18 UK time, Thursday, 18 February 2010

Welsh Blogger Suw Charman-Anderson is on a mission to get the world to remember Ada Lovelace. Ada is credited as being one of the world's first programmers and anyone who studied IT in the eighties may well have coded in the language that today bears her name.

Click back here later for a video message from Suw.

Over in Azerbaijan, Arzu Geybullayeva laments what rapid economic growth is doing to the skyline of the capital Baku.

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The construction of new residential blocks, not only worsens traffic and the aesthetic of the city but also fails to realize an important aspect- Baku is situated on an active seismic zone- one big earthquake, and thats it!

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