HERA: The Light of Women Joins with EarthID to Create an Equitable and Inclusive Society

Aug 9, 2022 | Books, Business

HERA: The Light of Women has joined forces with EarthId to deliver on their vision of creating a hub for education, future literacy, and advanced human-centric technologies

NEW YORK – Aug. 8, 2022 – PRLog — HERA City project, part of HERA: the Light of Women organization, is focused on developing a smart GREEN city for the future of humanity, offering an open door for all genders, nationalities, and religions, with a strong theme honoring women around the world. The City will be a big visit card for the world and a place of study, reflection, debate, leisure, tourism, and a space to work and live, where technology will be at the service of human beings so that they can enjoy life and everything that technology offers.

EarthId is an award-winning Decentralized Identity enterprise. EarthID has industry leading capabilities viz., Decentralized identity with verifiable credentials, Digital ID wallets with selective data disclosure and Password less authentication using multi-model biometrics.

To achieve HERA’s vision, a working identity system that can operate on a global scale has become a precondition for ensuring equal opportunities in the global economy. A more decentralized and self-sovereign identity system, using verifiable credentials and access controls, is not only more flexible and efficient, but can contribute to securing fundamental human rights, especially in countries with unstable governments and fragile institutions.

This partnership is crucial for both Hera and EarthId as it is a stepping-stone to achieve social inclusion, a cause deeply important to both organizations.

“We are very excited to be working alongside EarthId’s ground-breaking global decentralized identity platform. EarthId is secure, fast, highly scalable and simple to use, and is a breakthrough innovation in identity management and cybersecurity space.”

-Marianela Mirpuri, Founder and President, HERA: The Light of Women

“I’m proud to announce EarthId’s partnership with HERA: The Light of Women. It’s an exciting phase for the company and this partnership will bring myriad opportunities for us to showcase and deliver what we have envisioned”.

-Shiv Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer at EarthId,

About HERA:

HERA: the Light of Women is a project for the global good, focusing on the future of humanity, particularly women and their empowerment, and to create the change that the world needs for the future of humanity. Hera City will be both a place to live and a meeting place for the education of humanity. Hera has Board Advisors and Ambassadors worldwide initiating projects to positively impact humanity and the planet.

To learn more about Hera, visit https://www.heracity.org

For further information or to arrange an interview with a Hera City spokesperson, contact Hera Media Group https://www.heramediagroup.com  at contact@heramediagroup.com

About EarthId:

EarthId is an award-winning Decentralized Identity platform that allows secure and frictionless exchange and verification of identity information. EarthId helps organization’s reduce identity frauds, optimize cost’s and drive sustainability, while empowering users with data ownership, privacy and consent.

To learn more about EarthId, visit EarthId – Award winning Decentralized Identity Management (https://www.myearth.id/)

For further information or to arrange an interview with a EarthId spokesperson, contact Tracy Smith at Tracy@myearth.id

Women of Color STEM Conference Announces 2022 List of Award Recipients

Aug 3, 2022 | Books, Business

The annual conference, now in its 27th year, gathers leaders, innovators, and disruptors in STEM industries and education for a three-day event of keynotes, panels, awards, and activities.

BALTIMORE – Aug. 1, 2022 – PRLog — The 2022 Women of Color (WOC) STEM Digital Twin Experience (DTX) will be held October 6-8, 2022. Over the three-day event, the Conference will provide forums on retaining women and girls in STEM, continuous improvement, and networking. This year’s theme is “The Struggle, the Progress, and the Future.”

Since 1995, awards presented at the Women of Color STEM Conference have honored excellence in STEM and underscored the severe under-representation of women in STEM and at senior levels in all disciplines. For nearly three decades, employers committed to inclusion have chosen the Women of Color STEM Conference to exchange best practices and strategies to attract and keep girls and women in scientific and technical fields. This year’s co-sponsor is Raytheon Technologies, with additional sponsorship from Jacobs Engineering.

The event has highlighted the continuing challenges that bias, discrimination, and harassment pose to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. That’s why the 2022 conference theme is a call to action while reflecting the development and progress to achieve universal workplace gender equality.

In addition to a series of events for attendees to gather, learn, and grow together, the conference hosts an awards ceremony to honor women from a myriad of backgrounds who have overcome obstacles, paved new ways towards success, and have spent time mentoring and nurturing the next generation of STEM leaders. Awards presented at WOC honor excellence and underscore the under-representation of women in all STEM disciplines. Here are the awardees for this year’s Women of Color STEM DTX Conference.

The 2022 Women of Color STEM Award Recipients

Technologist of the Year

Valerie Sheares Ashby, Ph.D.

President

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Career Achievement – Government

Andra Homer

Chief, Resource Management

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District

Phi-Anh “Ann” Lutz

Systems Security Engineer

U.S. Air Force

Donna Merriman

Deputy Commander

Defense Contract Management Agency

Career Achievement – Industry

Sharon Jean-Baptiste

Vice President, Midwest Operations

Jacobs

Sadiqa Mahmood

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Life Sciences Business

Health Catalyst

D Sangeeta

CEO and Founder

Gotara

Community Service

Karriema Calhoun

Manager, Indirect Supply Chain

The Boeing Company

Cesanee Johnson

Program Manager and Business Operations Lead

Raytheon Technologies

Adrienne M. Somerville

CEO

Talent & Technical Solutions Corporation

Corporate Responsibility

Bernice Billups

Director, Boeing Global Engagement

The Boeing Company

Judy Johnson

Vice President

Jacobs

Diversity Leadership

Ruthie Barnes

Branch Chief/Program Manager

United States Air Force Materiel Command, BOMC Development Support Branch

Denise LaMaison-Bell

Senior Program Coordinator

Jacobs

Educational Leadership – Corporate Promotion of Education

Molly Mo

Global Engineering Learning & Development Manager

Ford Motor Company

Briana Pompilus

Executive Advisor, Project Manager of Operations for Global Digital Center of Excellence

Jacobs

FinTech Leadership

Josnelly Aponte

Director

Consumers Energy

JeanMarie LeiAnuenue Priola

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Modernization, Automation and Development (IMAD) Portfolio Manager

HQ ACC A2

U.S. Air Force

GEM Student Leadership

Samantha Mendez

Research Assistant (PhD Student)

The Ohio State University

Lifetime Achievement Award

Amanda Goodson, Ph.D.

Senior Director

Engineering and Mission Assurance, Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Managerial Leadership – Government

Jennifer Mills, Ph.D.

Supervisory Computer Engineer

(CECOM) – U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command

Managerial Leadership – Industry

Jilma Jimenez

Vice President

Jacobs

Hue Robinson

Microchip Implementation Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

Chrissy Thom

Senior Vice President, Global Growth, Strategy & Solutions

Jacobs

New Media/IT Leadership

Petronella Chola Sims

Vice President, Enterprise Technology

ICF

Ebony Rose Smith

Cybersecurity Technical Program Manager

Walmart Inc.

Outstanding Technical Contribution

Tamara Goyea, Ph.D.

Section Supervisor

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Ruchi Mahindru

Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM Research

President’s Award

LaTara Harris

Director External Affairs

AT&T

Professional Achievement – Government

Vanessa Espinoza

Deputy Fire Chief, Hill AFB, UT

United States Air Force Materiel Command, 775th Civil Engineering Squadron/Fire Department

Shawanta Leary

Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of Group Plans

90th Security Forces Group

United States Air Force

Seana McNeal

Senior General Engineer, Aerospace Systems Directorate

United States Air Force Materiel Command

Professional Achievement – Industry

Joy Johnson

Senior Financial Control Analyst

The Boeing Company

Da’Shaun Joseph

Portfolio Manager/Program Manager

Student Leadership – Undergraduate Level

Cierra Williams

Target Digital Network Analyst

National Security Agency Georgia

Technical Innovation

Carissa Pajel

MP&P Engineer (Chemical Technology)

The Boeing Company

Hui-ping Wang, Ph.D.

Technical Fellow

General Motors LLC

Special Recognition

Angela Butler

Capture Director

GDIT

Aida Gonzalez-Lopez

Director, International Programs Products Division

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

Candace Kenner

Manager, Talent Acquisition

Huntington Ingalls Industries

Ashley McQueen

Business Manager for the NASA SBIR/STTR Program Management Office

NASA Ames Research Center

Mai-Chi Nguyen

Engineering Specialist

Bell

Vernessa Noye

Computer Scientist

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Agnes Ortega

DVP Global Compliance and Quality Operations

Abbott

Tuyet-Hanh Schnell

Lead Member Engineering Staff

Lockheed Martin

Antoinette Ward

Networking Performance & Reliability Engineer

Leidos

Whitni Wilson Wertz

Associate Director, High Rise Group, High Rise Contract Logistics Center (HRCLC)

Otis Elevator

About The Women of Color STEM Conference

The Women of Color STEM Conference is produced by Career Communications Group, Inc. (CCG), the leader in workforce diversity, working with all types of companies to help support them in promoting multiculturalism and gender equity in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). For 27 years, the Women of Color STEM Conference has been a leading event for professional development, networking, and providing a resource for women to feel empowered. For more information about the 2022 Women of Color STEM DTX Conference, visit www.womenofcolor.net. Registration is now open

Ministry of Women and Child Development issues Guidelines of ‘Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0′ – an Integrated Nutrition Support Programme

Aug 2, 2022 | Business


Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued Operational Guidelines regarding implementation of ‘Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0′.   The scheme has been approved by the Government of India for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.


Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 is an Integrated Nutrition Support Programme. It seeks to address the challenges of malnutrition in children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers through a strategic shift in nutrition content and delivery and by creation of a convergent eco-system to develop and promote practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity.


With a view to address various gaps and shortcomings in the on-going nutrition programme and to improve implementation as well as to accelerate improvement in nutrition and child development outcomes, the existing scheme components have been re-organized under Poshan 2.0 into the primary verticals given below:


  • Nutrition Support for POSHAN through Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) for children of the age group of 06 months to 6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers (PWLM); and for Adolescent Girls in the age group of 14 to 18 years in Aspirational Districts and North Eastern Region (NER);

  • Early Childhood Care and Education [3-6 years] and early stimulation for (0-3 years);

  • Anganwadi Infrastructure including modern, upgraded Saksham Anganwadi; and

  • Poshan Abhiyaan




The objectives of Poshan 2.0 are as follows: 


  • To contribute to human capital development of the country;

  • Address challenges of malnutrition;

  • Promote nutrition awareness and good eating habits for sustainable health and wellbeing; and

  • Address nutrition related deficiencies through key strategies.


Poshan 2.0 shall focus on Maternal Nutrition, Infant and Young Child Feeding Norms, Treatment Protocols for SAM/MAM and Wellness through AYUSH practices to reduce wasting and under-weight prevalence besides stunting and anemia, supported by the ‘Poshan Tracker’, a new, robust ICT centralised data system which is being linked with the RCH Portal (Anmol) of MoHFW.




Detailed guidelines of ‘Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0’ are available at:


 https://wcd.nic.in/acts/guidelines-mission-saksham-anganwadi-and-poshan-20 


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Ministry of Women and Child Development Invites Applications/Nominations for Nari Shakti Puraskar-2022

Jul 23, 2022 | Business


The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India has invited Applications/Nominations for the Nari Shakti Puraskar-2022. The applications/nominations for Nari Shakti Puraskar, 2022 will be accepted only through the designated website i.e. www.awards.gov.in.


All Applications/Nominations received upto 31st October, 2022 will be considered for Nari Shakti Puraskar for the year 2022.


Nari Shakti Puraskar 2022 will be conferred by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on the occasion of International Women’s Day i.e 8th March, 2023 to individuals in recognition of their service towards the cause of women empowerment, especially vulnerable and marginalized women.


For eligibility criteria and other details, the Guidelines for Nari Shakti Puraskar are available on the website of the Ministry of Women & Child Development  https://wcd.nic.in/acts/guidelines-nari-shakti-puraskar-2022-onwards as well as the Applications/ Nominations portal i.e. www.awards.gov.in.






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Ministry of Women and Child Development organizes countdown programme of International Yoga Day 2022

Jun 9, 2022 | Business


The Ministry of Women and Child Development organized the countdown  programme of  the 8th International Day of Yoga, here today. The objective of celebrating this day is to bring more citizens into the fold of the activities of International Day of Yoga, 2022 thereby spreading rewards of Yoga in terms of physical and emotional well-being.





The Minister of State, MWCD, Dr. Munjpara Mahendrabhai graced the occasion with his presence and active participation. Secretary, MWCD and other officers / officials of Ministry of Women and Child Development actively took part in the program which was organized at the campus of National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Delhi.



According to the common protocol issued by the Ministry of Ayush, the officers were introduced to Yogasanas, Kapalbhati, Pranayama, Dhyna, Sankalpa and Meditation. The program was an endeavour to reinforce the message of “Yoga for Wellness” and contribute to convey the importance of Yoga that has grown multifold in the conscience of the public for its role in promotion of Holistic Health. This intensive drive “Yoga for Wellness” was successfully initiated as a part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Campaign’.





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