Founded in 2018 by Stephanie Itimi, Seidea is a social enterprise that exists to close the cybersecurity gender gap faced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women. We offer cybersecurity e-learning lectures and webinars from industry experts for a membership fee of £14.99 per month and reinvest 35% of our profits on our community initiatives: Sei-Code, Sei-Policy and Seipod. Membership Benefits: - Exclusive access to recruitment events and roundtable discussions. - Discounted career coaching and CV reviews. - Discounted certification training with our partners - A series of cybersecurity e-learning lectures and live webinars from industry experts. Community Projects: Sei-Code: an empowerment project sponsored which teaches BAME girls aged 9-16 how to code and build up their confidence through animated storytelling. Using Scratch, Google CS-First, the coding club introduces students to programming through fun video game development. Sei-Policy: Birthed out of UN Women #16DaysOfActivism, Sei-Policy is an annual survey which aims to fill in the data gap on cyber violence against women. Focusing on BAME women in the UK and Women in Nigeria. Seipod, a monthly podcast focused on empowering BAME women with the knowledge needed to be secure online

https://www.seidea.org/

• Africa
• Western Europe and North America

• Women

The Seipolicy project has been replicated and would be deployed in various African countries in November 2019. In an aim to show a clearer picture of cyber violence against women in the continent.

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be up to 3.5 million job openings by 2021. Meanwhile, women make up only 20% of the cybersecurity workforce. This number is much smaller when looking at the digital gender gap faced by black and ethnic minority women. While 20% shows an increase from a mere 11% in 2013, there's still a lot of opportunities to be seized in cybersecurity careers.​ We offer cybersecurity e-learning lectures and webinars from industry experts. We work with companies who share our common goal of diversifying the cybersecurity industry and want to hire underrepresented groups such as BAME women.

• Building confidence and security• Training ICT professionals