Dita Přikrylová Explained

Dita Přikrylová (born 26 February 1989) is a Czech software engineer, a social entrepreneur, and the founder of,[1] [2] [3] [4] a non-profit organization based upon Girls Who Code which provides technical education and networking possibilities for women and youth in information technologies.

Education

Přikrylová studied Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Economics and Administration and Applied Computer Science at the, both at Masaryk university in Brno.[5] [6]

Přikrylová was selected as the only Czech participant in both the worldwide 2016 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) held by the United States Department of State and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Palo Alto, California.[7]

Career

Přikrylová is most known for her work with Czechitas focusing on retraining women between the ages 20 and 45 in coding and information technologies.[8] [9] [10] She founded Czechitas in 2014 with the goal of dismantling stereotypes and encouraging women and girls to learn coding to move into IT careers. The non-profit offers classes all over the Czech Republic and maintains community education centers in Brno and Prague.[11]

Via a partnership between Czechitas and Microsoft Corporation, Přikrylová helped create an Academy of Programming for children in the Czech Republic where youth aged 8 to 26 could obtain free online training, tutorials and resources for various computer programs.[12]

In 2016, with Christian Hirsig and Cornelia Meyer, she cofounded Powercoders, a non-profit in Switzerland with centers in Lausanne and Zurich that teach refugees coding skills to improve their possibilities for employment.

Apart from Czechitas, she is a business developer at the Prague branch of GreenFox Academy, a coding bootcamp began in Hungary, which offers free computer programming courses for women.[13]

Přikrylová serves on the Advisory Board of Social Impact Awards, a non-profit incubator for social entrepreneurship and innovation, where she represents over 500 program alumni ventures.[14] She is also a board member of Cesko.digital, a non-profit online community for IT professionals in the Czech Republic who do pro-bono IT work for non-profits, government entities and NGO's.[15]

As of September 2020, Přikrylová is the Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Communities for the Czech anti-virus software company Avast.[16]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Přikrylová was awarded the European Citizen's Prize by the European Parliament for her efforts to increase women's and girls' technical and digital literacy. The same year, she was selected as one of 30 youngest business leaders in the Czech Republic under the age of 30 by Forbes magazine [17]

In 2017, she received the South by Southwest Community Service Award from SXSW in Austin, Texas.[18]

Also in 2017, Přikrylová was a member of the Aspen Institute Young Leaders Program in Central Europe.[19]

In 2018, she was selected as the Female Role Model of the year by Central European Startups Award,[20]

Publications and presentations

References

  1. Web site: Dita Přikrylová. Masaryk University. 2020-03-08.
  2. Web site: Dita Přikrylová z Czechitas: Letos otevřeme první Czechitas House a naučíme programovat 10 tisíc lidí. Holzman. Ondřej. 2019-04-17. CzechCrunch. cs. 2020-03-08.
  3. Web site: Czechitas: coding a brighter future for the girls of the Czech Republic. 2017-12-06. Microsoft News Centre Europe. 2020-03-08.
  4. Web site: IT for girls, girls for IT: Google supports the CzechITas project with €240k. Curda. Pavel. 2016-10-28. EU-Startups. 2020-03-10.
  5. Web site: Dita Přikrylová: Informatika je báječný svět i pro holky. Masaryk University. cs. 2020-03-08.
  6. Business intelligence models for capturing and analysis of enterprise marketing data. Masarykova univerzita, Fakulta informatiky. 2016. Dita. Přikrylová.
  7. Web site: Young Czech IT Specialist Attends Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Silicon Valley. 2016-06-22. U.S. Embassy in The Czech Republic. 2020-03-08.
  8. Web site: Dita Přikrylová (Czechitas): Žen v IT je pořád málo, letos ale našimi kurzy prošlo už 10 tisíc lidí. Vaca. David. Slížek. Jan. Lupa.cz. cs. 2020-03-10.
  9. Web site: Přikrylová z organizace Czechitas: Letos naučíme programovat deset tisíc lidí. iROZHLAS. cs. 2020-03-10.
  10. News: Lazarevič. Arsen. Dita Přikrylová: Technologická feministka, která mění zemi k lepšímu. Ekonomický deník. 2020-03-10. cs.
  11. Web site: Czechitas - About Us. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170325112242/http://www.czechitas.cz:80/cs/kdo-jsme . 2017-03-25 . 2020-06-06. cs.
  12. Web site: Akademie programování. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150501105713/http://akademieprogramovani.cz:80/ . 2015-05-01 . 2020-06-06. Academy of Programming. cs.
  13. Web site: Green Fox Academy - About us. GreenFox Academy. cs. 2020-03-08.
  14. Web site: Boards. Social Impact Award. 2020-03-08.
  15. Web site: Jakub Nešetřil: Česko.Digital je moje nová životní etapa, přes IT chceme pomoci společnosti. Sedlák. Jan. Lupa.cz. cs. 2020-03-08.
  16. Web site: Dita Přikrylová přichází do Avastu. Bude se starat o firemní diverzitu. 2021-07-28. Avast. cs.
  17. Web site: Dita Přikrylová je v 30 pod 30!. Forbes CZ. cs. 2020-03-08.
  18. Web site: SXSW Community Service Awards SXSW Conference & Festivals. SXSW. 2020-03-08.
  19. Web site: Dita Přikrylová. 2020-06-07. Aspen Institute Central Europe. cs.
  20. Web site: Regional winners of the 5th Central European Startup Awards announced. Ohr. Thomas. 2018-10-24. EU-Startups. 2020-03-08.

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