Sigma Group is to renew its commitment as main sponsor to Special Olympics Sweden, thereby continuing to make visible and increase interest in sports for people with intellectual disabilities.
Sigma Software Group launches the Sigma Software Unity Fund to extend its humanitarian aid efforts.
Swedesforukraine.org is a platform that makes it easy for Swedes who have spare rooms or housing to get in direct contact with Ukrainian refugee families. The service has been developed in record time by Ukrainian engineers at the Swedish-owned IT company Sigma Software.
How can the Ukrainian digitalization journey continue during the war and how can Swedish companies and individuals help both people staying in Ukraine and the ones moving to Sweden? Those were some of the questions discussed during WiTech’s Tech Talk hosted by Sigma Technology in Växjö on March 30. Over 40 participants from local companies, academia, and the public sector attended the event.
Today, on New Year’s Eve it is five years since the Danir Group launched International Expect a Better Tomorrow Day, an initiative to promote ideas that will contribute to a better future. Next year’s initiative, Heja Klubben!, highlights the invaluable contributions of clubs and associations to Swedish life.
Sigma Technology Group announces the start of a new long-term partnership with Mentor Sweden, a non-profit organization working with youth empowerment through mentoring. Sigma Technology Group will start a mentorship program connecting our people with youth in socioeconomically challenged areas in Sweden.
Femmegineering is the Danir Group's next year's initiative for a better tomorrow. They want to highlight the problem that there are too few girls who are applying for engineering programs at a technical college or university. The number rises a little each year, but the process is moving slowly. At the same time, the tech industry is screaming for people and needs access to the entire population.
Last year, Sigma and Danir started ‘Funkisfonden’, an initiative to get people with intellectual disabilities to become more active in sports. Now they have taken this commitment further and are now the main sponsor of Special Olympics Sweden. A collaboration that now results in them being involved in Special Olympics School Days.
Skool, a non-profit organization in Hungary that inspires girls to choose technology for their future, usually arranges physical events and workshops, programming boot camps, and mentoring sessions. The quarantine and lockdown period didn’t stop them in their mission of spreading knowledge and inspiration. This May, we took part in the first online workshop for girls together with Skool.
After launching ‘Funkisfonden’ last year, an initiative to inspire more people with intellectual disabilities to become physically active, Sigma and Danir have expanded their commitment and become the main sponsor of Special Olympics Sweden.
48 hours, 7,439 participants, and 500+ submissions – this is Hack the Crisis Sweden in short. Last weekend, Hack for Sweden and Openhack, powered by the support from the Swedish Government and DIGG conducted the 48-hour online hackathon. One of Sigma Technology hack teams with the solution Immune Volunteer Portal has placed #2 in the category Save Communities (Concept Solution).
Haveriet is Sigma and Danir’s next initiative for a better tomorrow. They plan to use Haveriet to inform people about life below the surface, explain just how important the oceans are to us humans and spread knowledge about the acute critical conditions existing along our Swedish coast.
Edisonplatform is a new think-tank community created by Bridge Budapest. The platform aims to connect value-oriented business actors with child development experts and foster their long-term cooperation. Sigma Technology is proud to be one of the cool companies to support the platform.
“Cooperation and networking are essential for all of us because our networks can grow, we can help more women, and companies can take a stand for equality. Our collaboration completes a life cycle,” the conclusion voiced by several networks during the panel discussion at Female Network Forum in Gothenburg, the first joint platform for female tech networks and initiatives in the Gothenburg region.
Female Network Forum will take place in Gothenburg on February 27th. The event aims to create a platform for inspiration and knowledge sharing and bring to light female IT and technology networks. Female Network Forum was fully booked in less than a week, and the waiting list keeps growing.
Encouraging girls to choose technology as a possible career – this is the vision of the Skool project, the initiative started by the Technology in Education Foundation, Hungary, Budapest. We have gotten a chance to meet the co-founder of the project and CEO Szilvi Koleszár, and Péter Guzsaly, Unicorn Whisperer.
December 2018 was a special month for Sigma Technology Swedish offices. We had the first Sigma Christmas Challenge, our way to make both our bodies and souls feel good. During the challenge, we supported the fundraising event Musikhjälpen arranged as a collaboration between Swedish Radio, Swedish Television, and Radiohjälpen.
The new International Expect a Better Tomorrow Day initiative for 2019 is now official. In launching Funkisfonden (the Special Athletes Fund), Sigma and Danir aim to bring into focus our athletes with disabilities and specifically those with intellectual disabilities; to support them and give them a voice.
The female IT network WiTech has grown from 0 to 200 active members during its first year. Today, women from over 40 companies in Kronoberg and Kalmar region attend WiTech’s tech talks and casual afterworks. On November 24, WiTech arranged an anniversary event at Sigma Technology’s new office in ICON, Växjö.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announces that Sigma founder Dan Olofsson becomes a member of the organization's Leadership Council.
Sigma is a leading consulting group with an objective to make our customers more competitive. Our means are technological know-how and a constant passion for finding better solutions. In total, we are 5,000 employees in sixteen countries. Our services are provided by Sigma Technology, Sigma Connectivity, Sigma Industry, Sigma Civil, and Sigma Software.
Sigma is owned by Danir, held by the Dan Olofsson family.
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