Cegal takes social responsibility

We are a diverse company with many nationalities and different people. In the future, we will significantly increase the proportion of women in the company, and reduce the average age of our new employees.

Without diversity in terms of gender, age, cultural background and skills, we will never be able to achieve our goal of building a legendary company. Equal pay for equal work and experience, equal opportunities regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and ability is important to us.

Cegal is a Platinum partner in ODA-network, the leading network for women in tech in the Nordic countries.

Dagfinn Ringås, CEO in Cegal, was awarded the ODA Awards Man during ODA Awards 2021. To achieve ODA’s goal of 40% women in tech, men and women need to collaborate across ages, backgrounds and skill sets. To contribute to this objective, ODA Awards are given as a recognition of focused work done by organizations or individuals to increase diversity in tech.

Is educating men the best way to combat unconscious bias? Read what our CEO Dagfinn Ringås has to say about the case in Interview with Equality Check here>

Cegal is proud to be a partner in the Fiji Foundation's largest project to date - to build Norway Safe Houses, an evacuation center in Wainibuka in Fiji that will house the inhabitants in the event of the next flood or cyclone. The project was initiated after Cyclone Winston hit the area very hard, and the damage to the schools and the village was enormous.

The evacuation center will serve several purposes and contain a large multipurpose room, which can function as a classroom or gymnasium, toilets, kitchen, library, a room for medical examinations and health, and last but not least, a room for the women of the village to make their own business where help for self-help is an important step out of poverty.

Read more and watch a video presentation of the project here >

Since 2019, our largest and most important initiative has been working with the National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) to prevent child and adolescent abuse online.

Together with Kripos, Cegal has established a group of volunteers to investigate how we can work to reduce this significant challenge by using our skills across disciplines and new technology. We invited other tech companies to join us in what we call “Dugnad til barnas beste”, which means working together for the children.

Girl Tech Fest (GTF) is an initiative to increase girls’ interest in tech and science. In fourth and fifth grade, girls can join a school day out of the ordinary, filled with experiments and exercises focused on tech. At GTF the participants get to be creative and innovative, and they learn that the tech industry also consists of women and girls!

Read more about Cegal`s robotics classes at GTF

Read about: We want to inspire the future women in tech!

Girl Tech Fest in Mexico

The fight for more women in tech is not just about Scandinavia. We at Cegal want to help increase diversity in the industry outside Norway as well. That's why we have chosen to support Girl Tech Fest in Mexico. In Norway, Girl Tech Fest is a great success, and we would like to help give girls in Mexico the same opportunities. Yes, Mexico is far away from Norway - but tech is limitless and just as relevant everywhere.