Maletsabisa Tsabi Molapo

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Biography

Moletsabisa is one of the most inspirational young woman in the world that use Technology to improve the world. Tsabi is known for her hard work and inspiration to young woman to chase their dreams and change the world to a better place. Moletsabisa Molapo was born and raised in The Kingdom of the Lesotho in South Africa. She is compliting her Master degree in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town(UCT). At UCT she is based in the ICT development Research Centre(ICT40). Her academic interest include the use of Information Communication Technology(ICT) in promoting health and education, User Experience Design and Web Science/ Internet Social Sciences. Moletsabisa Molapo was born and raised in The Kingdom of the Lesotho in South Africa. She is compliting her PhD at the University of Cape Town(UCT). At UCT she is based in the ICT development Research Centre(ICT40). Her academic interest include the use of Information Communication Technology(ICT) in promoting health and education, User Experience Design and Web Science/ Internet Social Sciences. Her current research focuses on low literacy user's access to educational contents, the web and other ICT sources. Other academics she's interested in are different aspects of the health, education and empowerment of women and young girls. Moletsabisa Molapo was born and raised in The Kingdom of the Lesotho in South Africa. She is compliting her Master degree in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town(UCT). At UCT she is based in the ICT development Research Centre(ICT40). Her academic interest include the use of Information Communication Technology(ICT) in promoting health and education, User Experience Design and Web Science/ Internet Social Sciences. Moletsabisa Molapo was born and raised in The Kingdom of the Lesotho in South Africa. She is compliting her PhD at the University of Cape Town(UCT). At UCT she is based in the ICT development Research Centre(ICT40). Her academic interest include the use of Information Communication Technology(ICT) in promoting health and education, User Experience Design and Web Science/ Internet Social Sciences. Her current research focuses on low literacy user's access to educational contents, the web and other ICT sources. Other academics she's interested in are different aspects of the health, education and empowerment of women and young girls. Tsabi is a Mandela Rhodes scholar, a fellow of the Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa, a One Young World ambassador in Lesotho, a Google Anita Borg scholar, an alumnus of the UCT Chapter of United Nations Association of South Africa. She blogs on issues relating to her GNOME Outreach Program for Women internship, her research in ICT4D and all else that falls under the interest areas named above. The project in which she is currently working in is to address the lack of health information in the rural areas. They build apps that budget on smartphones that help people to access multimedia health on their own contents.

Achievements

Awards and Honours

Tsabi received so many awards in the technology industry like Faculty for the Future Fellow, VV Lead Fellow and many more.All the awards were awarded to her beacause of her excellence in academic performance ,leadership experience and passion for computer science.She has demonstrated commitment to improving the lives of the women and children in their countries or other developing countries.

Academic Awards

Telkom Lesotho Award for Best student in Computer Systems and Networks. National University of Lesotho, September 2009. Standard Lesotho Bank Award for Best Student in Computer Science. National University of Lesotho, September 2009. Ricmar Award for Best Student in Computer Science (Best Programmer Award). National University of Lesotho, September 2009. Makeneuoe Mosala Award for best female CISCO Networking student. National University of Lesotho, September 2008. Ecol Award for National Top 3 COSC Candidate. Examinations Council of Lesotho, February 2004.

She attend the listed academic-, women- and leadership-focused conferences and events abroad.

  • 2014 Digitally Connected Symposium
  • 2013 Women Deliver Conference
  • Internet Engeneering Task Force 86 Meeting
  • 3rd Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
  • 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
  • One Young World Summit 2012

Quotes

As a woman in tech she has to inpsire other young ladies and girls out there to follow the life of dreams and never give up on their dreams.It is her duty to help them in having education and knowing the value that education has in their lives. "In nowadays no education means no bright future but with a lot of determination,faith and hardwork then a bright future will be coming your way" this is what one of the code4CT girls said to inspire others.Her favourite qoute is "Focus on your strength that's where the fire is."She continues to inspire them with her hard work and her archievements also make the ladies and girls see that its not hard to be successful if you put your mind to it.She also shows that giving back to her people and community is not a waste but more of a good practise of humanity.

About Us

We are the grade 10's from COSAT and we are representing Code4CT.We share something and that is the love for coding.We were given the opportunity by Code4CT to learn more about coding and what it is and how it changes lives around the world. We learnt a lot about HTML,CSS and Javasccript. We were priviledged enough to be part of the Industry Immersions at Amazon a great company indeed.They welcomed us with warm hands and taught us a lot about Github and everything that we would need to know so that we would be able to finish our project task that we were given.We were given an opportunity to do a profile page for a woman in Tech that we admire and look up to. We chose Maletsabisa Molapo ,she is one of the woman that brings change in this world by helping those that are underpriviledged using something that she loves and enjoys which is coding and using Technology. We would love to take this opportunity to thank Amazon for giving us this opportunity to do something that we love for someone we admire and we look up to. A big thank you to all the coaches from Amazon and our mentors from Code4ct for their assistance. Code4CT taught us a lot and for that we will forever be grateful.

The group members

  • Luphumlo Maci
  • Buhle Mamase
  • Nonopha Mamba
  • Yolanda Dastile
  • Lilitha Moni