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A Special Software Programme

Business of Software; Apps for Good; Teaching tech to girls; Keeping women in tech; Men in Sheds

A special edition of Click from the Business of Software Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Joining Gareth and Bill will be Joan Mulvihill, CEO of the Irish Internet Organisation and Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist from TechSmith. They will be discussing how children are being taught how to create apps, how girls are learning coding in school, why so many women who work in the tech industry leave and how to get men together in the real world using technology.

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Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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Wed 18 May 201614:32GMT
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