Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Advertising and marketing
In celebration of Girls’s Historical past month, we’re celebrating the founders behind groundbreaking apps and video games from around the globe – made by girls or for girls. Let’s uncover 4 of my favorites on this newest batch of 9 #WeArePlay tales.
Múkami Kinoti Kimotho
Royelles Revolution / Royelles Revolution: Gaming For Ladies (USA)
Múkami’s journey started when she seen the dearth of illustration for women within the gaming trade. Decided to vary this narrative, she created Royelles, a sport designed to encourage ladies and non-binary individuals to pursue careers in STEAM (science, expertise, engineering, artwork, math) fields. The sport is anchored in fierce feminine avatars like the true life NASA scientist Mara who voices a personality. Royelles is revolutionizing the gaming panorama and empowering the following era of innovators. Múkami’s excited to launch extra gamified tales and studying modules, and a variety of prolonged actuality and AI-powered avatars primarily based on the sport’s characters.
“If we will successfully educate Gen Z and Gen Alpha, now we have to fulfill them within the metaverse and leverage gamified play as a method of driving schooling, consciousness, inspiration and empowerment.”
– Múkami
Leonika Sari Njoto Boedioetomo
Reblood: Blood Companies App (Indonesia)
When her college buddy wanted an pressing blood transfusion however found there was none out there within the blood financial institution, Leonika turned conscious of the blood donation scarcity in Indonesia. Her mission to deal with this led her to create Reblood, an app connecting blood donors with these in want. With over 140,000 blood donations facilitated up to now, Reblood just isn’t solely saving lives but in addition selling more healthy existence with a not too long ago added function that enables individuals to seek out essentially the most reasonably priced medical checkups.
“Our aim is to save lots of extra lives by elevating consciousness of blood donation in Indonesia and selling more healthy existence for blood donors.”
– Leonika
Luciane Antunes dos Santos and Renato Hélio Rauber
CARSUL / Automotive Sul: City Mobility App (Brazil)
Luciane was devastated when she misplaced her son in a automotive accident. Her and her husband Renato’s loss led them to develop Carsul, an city mobility app prioritizing security and safety. By offering secure transportation choices and partnering with authorities well being packages to chauffeur sufferers lengthy distances to bigger hospitals, Carsul just isn’t solely stopping accidents but in addition saving lives. Luciane and Renato’s dedication to defending others from the ache they’ve skilled is ongoing and so they plan to broaden to extra cities in Brazil.
“Carsul was born from this story of loss, inspiring me to guard different lives. Redefining myself on this approach could be very rewarding.”
– Luciane
Diariata (Diata) N’Diaye
Resonantes / App-Elles: Security App for Girls (France)
After listening to the tales of younger individuals who had skilled abuse that was much like her personal, Spoken phrase artist Diata developed App-Elles – an app that enables girls to ship alerts after they’re at risk. By connecting customers with help networks {and professional} companies, App-Elles is empowering girls to reclaim their security and search assist when wanted.Diata additionally runs writing and recording workshops to assist victims overcome their experiences with violence and has plans to broaden her app with the introduction of a discreet wearable that sends out alerts.
“I spotted from my work on the bottom that there have been victims of violence who wanted assist and help programs. This was my inspiration to create App-Elles.”
– Diata
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