We Are SEIDEA

We exist to close the cyber-security gender gap for BAME women.

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.

Seidea is an award-winning global movement to diversify the Cybersecurity industry that began in London, with Stephanie Itimi in 2018. Today, we are on a mission to increase the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Women in Cybersecurity.

We offer cybersecurity events, lectures and resources from industry experts for a membership fee of £14.99 per month and reinvest 35% of our profits on our community initiatives: Sei-Code and Sei-Policy.

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

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SEICODE:

CODING CLUB FOR BAME GIRLS

Sei-Code is an empowerment project sponsored by Google and managed by Seidea, which teaches BAME girls aged 9-16 how to code and build up their confidence through animated storytelling. Using Scratch, Google CS-First club introduces students to programming through fun video game development. The project sole mission is to raise the aspirations of BAME Girls in the Bexley Area.

Current Impact: 29 BAME Girls (9-16) have successfully completed the programme.

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SEIPOLICY:

ONLINE SAFETY FOR WOMEN

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.

The project aims to drive a vital change in practice and policymaking at all levels through our advocacy, experience, and knowledge of the realities (struggles and sufferings) of Cyber violence towards BAME Women.