Contest to Improve ICT Education in Wales
NIACE Cymru, a Welsh charity that promotes adult learning with a particular focus on digital skills, launched a contest for young people in Ceredigion to help solve the issue of the digital skills shortage in the workplace. Young people are…
Minister of Youth and ICT Appeals to Rwandan Girls
As part of YouthConnekt’s celebration of Girls in ICT Day 2015 and the culmination of Rwanda’s Ms. Geek Competition, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, Minister of Youth and ICT, encouraged girls to join the ICT sector. “It is very important for young…
Croatia Celebrates Girls in ICT Day
Croatia’s Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) celebrated its first ‘International Girls in ICT Day’ this year, in partnership with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Ericsson Nikola Tesla. The day’s events were varied and exciting, including discussions…
ITU Celebrates Annual ‘International Girls in ICT Day’
The International Telecommunication Union and the global technology community recently celebrated ‘International Girls in ICT Day’ 2015 to inspire women around the world to pursue studies and careers in the field of ICT. This initiative began in 2010 in response…
Samsung Develops Ghanaian Digital Village
Samsung Electronics Africa recently developed a Digital Village in Ghana’s Volta Region, in an effort to deliver ICT-based material to remote areas including educational, health, and business development information and tools. They will also deliver training programmes to ensure that…
MTN South Africa Supports ICT Entrepreneurs
MTN Business holds local supplier development of the utmost importance as part of their efforts to “make a more tangible impact on the economy.” Through their long-term supplier development programme, they seek to address “poverty alleviation and real empowerment by…
Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) Starts ICT Programme for Youth
The Botswana Institute of Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) Youth Associate ICT Programme (ICTAssociate@BITRI) is part of the government’s plan to empower youth through ICT. The programme is aimed at developing the 60 participants’ ICT, entrepreneurial, critical thinking and problem-solving…
