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Mariana Costa Checa |
TEDxPlaceDesNationsWomen
• December 2018
With her social enterprise Laboratoria, Mariana Costa Checa is changing the face of tech in Latin America. She has taught coding to hundreds of women and thus given them the tools to launch a promising career in the sector. Because more women creating technology means more women shaping our world’s future.
Mariana Costa Checa is the CEO and co-founder of Laboratoria, a social enterprise which has opened training centers in Peru, Chile, Mexico and Brazil. She has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential women by the BBC. Laboratoria is a partner of the campaign by the International Tele-Communication Union, the UN agency for information and communication technologies, and the International Labour Organisation on Digital Skills for Decent Jobs for Youth.