I’m in Geneva for a couple of days to celebrate Girls in ICT day 2014 #girlsinICT with the ITU the International Telecommunication Union, the part of the United Nations that specialises in technology. I’m on a panel later on today. We arrived yesterday afternoon and after a short British Airways flight from London which took just over an hour.

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After a 15 min train ride from the airport we were in the centre of Geneva

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After checking in at our hotel we went to be interviewed at ITU and met some of the fabulous women who work there šŸ™‚ We just had to take a #selfie…

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ThenĀ my daughter Leah and I went to have a look around and hang out.

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Here we are outside the UN HQ building

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This is Baby Plage, a fabulous mana made beach with play equipment made from recycled car tyres etc.

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At the #girlsinICT conference Super Awesome Sylvia demonstrates her WatercolorBot

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Leah looking forward to the digital music making workshop

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Super Awesome Sylvia again šŸ™‚

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ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure welcomes us all to #girlsinICT day

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The wonderful Doreen Bogdan Chief of Strategic Planning at ITU, a great role model for the girls here and for us all

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Sylvia gets lots of interest from the gilrs and tells everyone about when she met President Obama at the White House. Go Sylvia!

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Sylvia interviewed again about what she has done and what she is interested in. Check her outĀ at The Sylvia Show.

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What an awesome day! …and it has only just begun, looking forward to more exciting stuff this afternoon.

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