Close to 70% Ivorian women enlisted for Orange Foundation’s Digital Homes program are now certified digital entrepreneurs
Orange Foundation Ivory Coast announced that close to 70% of the beneficiaries of the Digital Homes (Maisons Digitales) program for vulnerable women entrepreneurs finished the course and received certificates for their accomplishment. Out of a goal of empowering 1,000 women…
GirlCode launches competition to grow women-owned small and medium tech organizations in South Africa
GirlCode is a South African organization created in 2014 to empower girls and young women through technology. This social enterprise was first created as a women only hackathon and has grown into multiple supportive programs to promote digital skills advancement…
Digital skills training to empower Samoan youth
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Samoa launched an ICT skills training to empower sixty unemployed youths. The pilot project, implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Community and Social Development (MWCSD), and the National University of…
Digital literacy program will teach 60,000 Indian women how to navigate safely and discern credible information
Facebook launched a pilot program to provide 60,000 women across Indian universities with access to digital literacy skills and awareness training over a period of one year. This initiative will be organized in partnership with the National Commission for Women…
Microsoft #MakeWhatsNext campaign advocated for European Girls in ICT
During the last edition of the Girls in ICT Day on April 2018, Microsoft launched a series of 17 #MakeWhatsNext events to boost the involvement of girls in the technology industry across 16 European countries. Participation during the events reached…
DigiGirlz Day in Malta invites 80 girls to meet ICT role models
Microsoft invited 80 students to Digigirlz Day in Malta, where women in the tech industry shared their views to attract young women into the STEM fields. The event enabled girls to explore different technology skills, listen to stories of success,…
Turkish government and Google launch program to increase digital skills of women village leaders
The government of Turkey and Google launched a digital literacy program that assimilates the Internet Saathi initiative in India, according to the newspaper Daily Sabah. During its first phase, women who are neighborhood and village leaders will be taught how…
Ayitic Goes Global will train 300 women in Haiti
The Registry of Internet Directions of Latin America and the Caribbean (LACNIC) and the International Research and Development Center (IDRC) launched “Ayitic Goes Global”, an online training program to provide women entrepreneurs with skills to consolidate and improve internet infrastructure…
ShadowTech initiative invites 150 secondary school girls from New Zealand to experience ICTs in the workplace for one day
NZTech, the Wellington Institute of Technology and Whitireia Community Politechnic launched ShadowTech 2018, a program in collaboration with 35 New Zealand companies to host 150 secondary school girls for one day to gain experience in diverse ICT applications. The initiative…
Phase3 Telecom and Django Girls collaborate to empower girls through ICTs
Shortly after the recent Girls in ICT Day in April 2018, Phase3 Telecom started an agreement with Django Girls Abuja, a non-profit organization, to collaborate on elaborating programming workshops and digital skills training for young women in West Africa. The…