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Contact us

Inspired yet? Great! Shoot a mail to gwit4emerging@gmail.com and become a part of the GWIT Family.

Super Inspired? Have a pressing need to share stuff with everyone right away? Hop onto the GWIT Forum. Happy Posting!

GWIT extends its boundaries to the offline world with regular Events hosted in and around the Middle East and Africa region, for women to come forth and experience the technological advances and opportunities available to women across the globe.

Opportunities

Opportunities


Google Women in Technology Ambassadors (GWITA)


Opportunities Professional

Opportunities for professionals: Online Advertising




Google Products

Establish your company online quickly and easily with Google Site

Share the right things with the right customers with Google+

Promote your activity using videos on YouTube

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way to monetize your content by displaying relevant and engaging ads on your website pages: download our AdSense Overview here

Google AdWords is an online advertising program that allows anyone to advertise on Google.com and its network of partner websites. Learn more: download our "Getting Started with Google AdWords" guide

Opportunities Student

Opportunities for students


At Google, we believe students are the future! We are always looking for ways to help further educate students and to interact with bright, young minds. Below you'll find some excellent resources to help you interact with Google.





Anita Borg Scholarship - Africa, Europe, Middle East Deadline for 2012: February 1st.
Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipients will each receive a financial award for the academic year. A group of female undergraduate and graduate students will be chosen from the applicant pool, and scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of each candidate’s academic background and demonstrated leadership. In addition, all scholarship recipients and finalists will be invited to attend a retreat at Google.

Check out the profiles of the girls awarded with the Anita Borg Scholarship
Check out the Scholarship Opportunities Page



Job opportunities for students - visit the site
Search our opportunities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.



Conference & Travel Grants - visit the site
Google supports a variety of external engineering and computer science-related initiatives associated with universities, including summer schools, workshops and programming contests.



Student Ambassador Program - visit the site
The Deadline for students in Sub-Saharan Africa in March 1st, 2012 - click here to apply
The Google Student Ambassador Program is an opportunity for students to act as liaisons between Google and their universities.



Google Online Marketing Challenge - visit the site
Professors register for the Challenge from November 15, 2011 to May 1, 2012; Students can register from January 31, 2012 to May 11, 2012.
The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a global online marketing student competition open to any higher education institution from anywhere in the world.



CodeJam - Google annual programming competition - visit the site
Registration opens on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012.
Google Code Jam is an annual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time.



Google Summer of Code - visit the site
Program announced on February 4th, 2012.
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects.

Resources

Google Maps


Inspiration:

Google Maps and the New York Times


Read more...

Google Maps

Inspiration

Google Maps provides a highly responsive, intuitive mapping interface with embedded, detailed street and aerial imagery data. Map controls can be embedded in the product to give users full control over map navigation and the display of street and imagery data. Besides all these capabilities, the primary driver behind the rapid acceptance of Google Maps as an Internet mapping viewer is its ability to customize the map to fit application-specific needs. 

Here you go some very inspiring examples of very happy adopters and how Google Maps features in the most popular web sites around the world.


Google Maps and the New York Times

 Google Maps and Yelp


Technical resources

In order to  get familiar with Google Maps a good starting point for building maps applications can be found at the following: https://developers.google.com/maps/.
If you prefer watching videos instead of reading  documentation here you go a nice introduction to Google APIs with examples and clarification about standards in use.


To best take advantages of this tutorial please use the material available at: http://gmap-tutorial-101.appspot.com/mapsapi101/toc


Advanced tips

If your code gets big, use closure and programming in the large, as explained in the following video


then become one of the Google Maps experts as explained below:
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/google-developers-expert-recognizing.html

Case Studies

http://www.onixgov.com/google/Google%20Maps%20API%20Case%20Studies.pdf
http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/customers.html
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/earth.google.com/en/us/enterprise/pdf/intercontinental_hotels.pdf
http://infm718z-s11.wikispaces.com/file/view/INFM+718Z_Term_Project_Google_Maps_Paper-Rohit%26Phillip.pdf
How Google maps is changing the way we see the world (wired)

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