Last year I par­tic­i­pated in the first Ada Lovelace Day by writ­ing a blog post about a woman in sci­ence or tech­nol­ogy that I admired. In my case, I wrote about more than one; in fact I wrote about 5 Aus­tralian women in IT that I see kick­ing arse and tak­ing names on an almost daily basis.

The day was a huge suc­cess with some­thing like 3500 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing. This year it’s hap­pen­ing again on March 24 – less than a month away.

I’d encour­age any­one who blogs – even if it’s not reg­u­larly – to con­sider putting their name down and writ­ing some­thing up – it’s all about high­light­ing the often-overlooked con­tri­bu­tion made by women in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy fields. You don’t have to be a woman to par­tic­i­pate either – blokes are more than welcome!

Now of course, i have to decide who to write about – as last year, it’s going to be a ques­tion of whether I choose one indi­vid­ual to con­cen­trate on, or show­case a num­ber of women. There’s just so many to choose from!