Ivory Coast: Marie Lucienne N'guessan encourages young women to pursue digital careers
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:30 am
Passionate about computer programming, digital technology, writing and entrepreneurship, her observation of the glaring absence of women in the ICT field led her to invest in the development of various related skills.
Ivorian Marie Lucienne N'guessan (photo) is the founder of the MARée de LUmière Center, a non-profit organization created in 2021 to train children, women, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Côte d'Ivoire in digital skills.
Through her Center, the young woman initiated the Digital O'Féminin Tour, a theoretical and practical training program whose tongliao mobile number database theme is "digital: a tool to combat gender inequality." The training sessions, which are held over 5 days in different cities across Côte d'Ivoire, involve an average of fifty young women per city. Today, the Digital O'Féminin Tour has already visited 9 cities and trained more than 500 women in various digital professions.
Asked by We Are Tech Africa about her future projects, Marie Lucienne N'guessan stated that " in addition to the Digital O'Féminin Tour, the MARée de LUmière Center has several other projects that will be launched soon. We have Digital Dès la Base, which is a program that targets children and aims to teach them how to use digital technology properly."
" We also plan to organize the Salon du Digital O'Féminin, which will be a meeting place for female role models in the technology field and young women who will participate in this fair. It will also provide opportunities for the beneficiaries of our training courses, who will have the opportunity to network and participate in discussions with the personalities and companies that will be present ," she added.
Marie Lucienne N'guessan holds a Higher Technician's Certificate (BTS) in IT and Application Development. She obtained it in 2018 from Groupe Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (EDHEC). In 2019, she was part of the first class of the Orange Digital Academy and graduated with qualifications as a website and mobile application developer. In 2021, she earned a bachelor's degree in software engineering from the Ivorian Institute of Technology. She then obtained a training certificate in digital marketing from the Digital Press Platform of Côte d'Ivoire (PNCI).
Owner of the MARée de LUmière blog since 2019, Marie Lucienne N'guessan, who was crowned the first Miss 2.0 at the Miss Digital competition in December 2020, writes about leadership, motivation, entrepreneurship, and technology. Through her platform, she highlights people considered role models for young people based on their inspiring journeys. She is also a young blogger at UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire.
A Women Techmakers Ambassador, a Google program that provides visibility, community, and resources to women in technology, the tech activist has also been a consultant and trainer for Equal Access International, a nonprofit social organization headquartered in Washington, DC, and working in Africa and Asia, since October 2021.
Marie Lucienne N'guessan served for a year as the national ambassador for female leadership in digital. In 2021, she was ranked among the top 20 promising young people by the Association of Lobbying and Public Affairs Consultants in Côte d'Ivoire (ACLAP-CI). She was also ranked among the top 100 most influential people in French-speaking Africa on LinkedIn. In 2022, she was named Tech & Innovation Influencer at the Pulse Influencer Awards.
Ivorian Marie Lucienne N'guessan (photo) is the founder of the MARée de LUmière Center, a non-profit organization created in 2021 to train children, women, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Côte d'Ivoire in digital skills.
Through her Center, the young woman initiated the Digital O'Féminin Tour, a theoretical and practical training program whose tongliao mobile number database theme is "digital: a tool to combat gender inequality." The training sessions, which are held over 5 days in different cities across Côte d'Ivoire, involve an average of fifty young women per city. Today, the Digital O'Féminin Tour has already visited 9 cities and trained more than 500 women in various digital professions.
Asked by We Are Tech Africa about her future projects, Marie Lucienne N'guessan stated that " in addition to the Digital O'Féminin Tour, the MARée de LUmière Center has several other projects that will be launched soon. We have Digital Dès la Base, which is a program that targets children and aims to teach them how to use digital technology properly."
" We also plan to organize the Salon du Digital O'Féminin, which will be a meeting place for female role models in the technology field and young women who will participate in this fair. It will also provide opportunities for the beneficiaries of our training courses, who will have the opportunity to network and participate in discussions with the personalities and companies that will be present ," she added.
Marie Lucienne N'guessan holds a Higher Technician's Certificate (BTS) in IT and Application Development. She obtained it in 2018 from Groupe Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (EDHEC). In 2019, she was part of the first class of the Orange Digital Academy and graduated with qualifications as a website and mobile application developer. In 2021, she earned a bachelor's degree in software engineering from the Ivorian Institute of Technology. She then obtained a training certificate in digital marketing from the Digital Press Platform of Côte d'Ivoire (PNCI).
Owner of the MARée de LUmière blog since 2019, Marie Lucienne N'guessan, who was crowned the first Miss 2.0 at the Miss Digital competition in December 2020, writes about leadership, motivation, entrepreneurship, and technology. Through her platform, she highlights people considered role models for young people based on their inspiring journeys. She is also a young blogger at UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire.
A Women Techmakers Ambassador, a Google program that provides visibility, community, and resources to women in technology, the tech activist has also been a consultant and trainer for Equal Access International, a nonprofit social organization headquartered in Washington, DC, and working in Africa and Asia, since October 2021.
Marie Lucienne N'guessan served for a year as the national ambassador for female leadership in digital. In 2021, she was ranked among the top 20 promising young people by the Association of Lobbying and Public Affairs Consultants in Côte d'Ivoire (ACLAP-CI). She was also ranked among the top 100 most influential people in French-speaking Africa on LinkedIn. In 2022, she was named Tech & Innovation Influencer at the Pulse Influencer Awards.