2019 EQUALS in Tech Awards winners announced at IGF in Berlin
The winners of the 2019 EQUALS in Tech Awards were announced on 27 November 2019 at an awards ceremony hosted by the EQUALS Global Partnership during the annual Internet Governance Forum in Berlin. The EQUALS in Tech Awards celebrate successful innovative solutions aimed at closing the…
ICT training labs will increase the employability of women in Pakistan
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications of Pakistan is establishing 150 labs at Women Empowerment Centers across the country with the aim of increasing women’s employability. The labs, which will cost more than USD 4 million, are being created…
New digital literacy programme to empower women from Northeast India
The National Commission for Women, Facebook, and the Cyber Peace Foundation jointly launched a digital literacy programme for women in Northeast India in December 2018. The digital literacy and online safety programme for the women of the Northeast is specialized…
Public-private digital literacy programmes to upskill citizens in Pakistan
An article from The News Pakistan summarized a set of initiatives that have been launched by Facebook to increase digital literacy in the country. It provides yet another example of how organizations from the private sector are implementing programmes to…
The government of Portugal launched an initiative to increase digital literacy skills nationwide
The government of Portugal announced the investment of EUR 23 million to support “INCoDE.2030,” a new programme to improve the digital literacy and skills of the population. The initiative is divided into five areas, which include: inclusion, education, qualifications, specializations,…
Microsoft collaborates with non-profits in Middle East and Africa to upskill 10 million youth in computing science
Microsoft announced its new goal to impart digital skills to 10 million youth in the Middle East and Africa throughout a period of three years. The company intends to reach this goal by leveraging the on-going YouthSpark programme, which currently…
Australian government prepared to boost skills of “Future Female Entrepreneurs”
The government of Australia launched the Future Female Entrepreneurs programme to engage 55,000 girls and young women in digital skills training. The programme is comprised of three components: a digital platform to access educational content, in-person workshops to upskill beneficiaries,…
Sixty girls in Ghana will learn programming to improve their future employment opportunities
DreamOval Foundation launched a programme called Females in Technology to provide sixty girls from two communities in Accra, Ghana with access to STEM training. The main objective of this initiative is to develop the girls’s interest in pursuing science-related careers…
Digital literacy training to empower 3,400 girls every year in Kampala, Uganda
The Finance Trust Bank and Craft Silicon Foundation launched a free digital literacy programme to provide girls from slums in Kampala, Uganda with ICT skills training. This initiative is intended to empower girls aged 12-24 to become productive members of…
Technolochicas 3.0 invited Latinas to learn how their ideas can revolutionize the tech industry
On October 5, 2018, Televisa Foundation and the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) launched Technolochicas 3.0 event to promote the participation of Latin girls and women in ICT fields. The event reflected a three-year long media campaign…
