The Connected Digital Capacity Platform Pilot in Ethiopia works with ITU connected initiatives to target young women, youth, women and the government

Young women:
The African Girls Can Code Initiative: a four year project to together Girls from all over the African continent across different languages to spark their interest in ICT as a career path and to empower them as young promising innovative women on the Continent.

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Youth:

ITU-ILO Boosting Decent Jobs: the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with the support of the African Union (AU), initiated a programme with continental reach to create decent employment and enhance skills for youth in Africa’s digital economy

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Generation Connect Regional Youth Group & Youth Hackathon: The Generation Connect Global Youth Summit will be held on 2 – 4 June 2022, at the Intare Conference Arena, in Kigali, Rwanda to provide an opportunity for meaningful youth engagement, consultation, collaboration, empowerment, participation and calls for action address the digital divide and related topics, including digital skills, gender, climate change, online safety, the future of work, entrepreneurship, digital dependencies, and more.

Women:

ITU-EIF Tech as a Driver of Women’s Economic opportunity

Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) and ITU, contributing to the EQUALS Global Partnership that works with policymakers to mainstream a gender perspective in domestic policies and regulations to ensure women participate fully in the digital economy.

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Women in Cyber Program

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and EQUALS, the global partnership for gender equality in the digital age of which ITU is a co-founder, jointly organize the programme. It is key to ongoing efforts of ITU-BDT to close the digital gender divide, by mainstreaming gender-focused activities across our priorities. Women in Cyber, engages role models in the field of cybersecurity and connects them with talented women in Africa, the Arab region, and Asia-Pacific.

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Government

Digital Skills for Jobs (ITU-ILO Boosting Decent Jobs): ILO-ITU Digital Skills for Jobs Campaign to equip 5 million youth with job-ready digital skills

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Gender in ICT policies (EQUALS)

Mainstreaming a gender perspective in ITU and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women through ICTs

Incident Response (Cyber4Good):

Cyber for Good is an ITU project that aims to bridge the cybersecurity capacity gap in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) through facilitated support and access to ITU Members’ experience, expertise, services, tools, and products.

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Gap assessment – digital blocks for recovery (Connect2 Recover)

Connectivity & Digital Services Building Blocks

These initiatives are implemented with the support of Partner2Connect and ITU-UNDP Joint Facility on Digital Capacity to strengthen digital capacity of policymakers across the globe.

Connected Digital Capacity Pilot – Digital Capacity for All Platform in Ethiopia

I-CoDI facilitated a collaborative stakeholder engagement co-creation workshop supported by ITU Regional Office for Africa and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology in Ethiopia on 10-11 May 2022 in Addis Ababa to enhance digital skills for youth & women for employment and innovating for connectivity.

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We offer Digital Capacity Trainings with a focus on:

We work with ITU connected initiatives to target these groups:

For Young women: The African Girls Can Code Initiative: A four year project to together Girls from all over the African continent across different languages to spark their interest in ICT as a career path and to empower them as young promising innovative women on the Continent.

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For the youth: ITU-ILO Boosting Decent Jobs: The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with the support of the African Union (AU), initiated a programme with continental reach to create decent employment and enhance skills for youth in Africa’s digital economy.

Learn more

Generation Connect Regional Youth Group & Youth Hackathon: The Generation Connect Global Youth Summit will be held on 2 – 4 June 2022, at the Intare Conference Arena, in Kigali, Rwanda to provide an opportunity for meaningful youth engagement, consultation, collaboration, empowerment, participation and calls for action address the digital divide and related topics, including digital skills, gender, climate change, online safety, the future of work, entrepreneurship, digital dependencies, and more.

For Women:

ITU-EIF Tech as a Driver of Women’s Economic opportunity

Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) and ITU, contributing to the EQUALS Global Partnership that works with policymakers to mainstream a gender perspective in domestic policies and regulations to ensure women participate fully in the digital economy.

Learn more

Women in Cyber Program

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and  EQUALS​, the global partnership for gender equality in the digital age of which ITU is a co-founder, jointly organize the programme. It is key to ongoing efforts of ITU-BDT to close the digital gender divide, by mainstreaming gender-focused activities across our priorities. Women in Cyber,  engages role models in the field of cybersecurity and connects them with talented women in Africa, the Arab region, and Asia-Pacific.​

Learn more

For the Government

Digital Skills for Jobs (ITU-ILO Boosting Decent Jobs): ILO-ITU Digital Skills for Jobs Campaign to equip 5 million youth with job-ready digital skills

Gender in ICT policies (EQUALS)

Incident Response (Cyber4Good):

Cyber for Good is an ITU project that aims to bridge the cybersecurity capacity gap in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) through facilitated support and access to ITU Members’ experience, expertise, services, tools, and products.  

Gap assessment – digital blocks for recovery (Connect2 Recover)

Connectivity & Digital Services Building Blocks

These initiatives are implemented with the support of Partner2Connect and ITU-UNDP Joint Facility on Digital Capacity to strengthen digital capacity of policymakers across the globe.