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Girls in ICT International Day Online Celebration in Armenia
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Description of the event
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Girls in ICT Day international celebration is an ITU (International Telecommunication Union) initiation, which is a global movement to encourage and empower young girls and women to integrate into ICT and become, change agents. The international day is celebrated in the fourth month, fourth day and fourth day (Thursday) every year. Since 2012, Women and Information Society NGO has been the initiator of Girls in ICT celebration in Armenia. Every year high officials in ICT from Armenia and abroad, role models, experts and guests have participation in the celebration. April 22, 2021 Girls in ICT Day was officially celebrated in Armenia in an online format. In 2021, the slogan was; Connecting girls, creating brighter futures. The event was organized by Women and Information Society NGO. The Video message of Doreen Bogdan- Martin, Director, BDT, ITU officially opened the event. Women and Information society NGO head Narine Abazian made an opening speech. H. E. Kirsti Narinen, Ambassador of Finland to South Caucasus sent her inspirational message to the participants of the event wishing them vigor to become ICT leaders and change makers. She made a historic review of coding in the US in the times of World War II, drew parallels between Finland and Armenia and added that human potential is the most important thing in small counties and used at maximum integrating all layers of society. Honorable Ambassador mentioned that she is happy to say that Finland is leading the Action Coalition of the UN Women driven Generation Equality Forum on “Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality” and that Armenia is a partner to Finland in the Coalition. The Action Coalition has subsections and many of these sound familiar and are covered in the Technovation Girls Armenia project and other Women & Information Society activities She is proud of cooperation with Women & Information Society NGO.At the end of her speech, Ambassador announced official opening of Women and Information Society NGO webpage (www.wisngo.am) Victoria Poghosyan, Deputy Minister of High -Tech Industry Ministry of the Republic of Armenia joined the event with her speech underlining the irreplacable role of women ICT in Armenia and encouraged young girls and women to participate in ICT integration processes. Executive Director at UEICT (Union of Employers of Information and Communication Technologies)Eduard Musayelyan, spoke about women’s involvement statistics in ICT in different countries and indicated that it makes 40% in Armenia. 50 semi-finalist teams of Technovation Girls, Armenia 2021 with 300 mentors and schoolgirls from all marzed of Armenia participated in the event too. With the help of organisers; Ani Manukyan, Ruzan Stepanyan and moderators; Narek Mamikonyan and Tamara Hovhannisyan the teams presented their ideas for mobile applications that developed in the frame of Technovation Girls, Armenia 2021. Technovation Girls, Armenia 2021 is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. Girls in ICT Day celebrated was crowned with announcement of the winners based on the results of the "Best Video Report" and "Best Photo" contests, organized within the framework of the "Technovation Girls Armenia"2021 program.
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Entity organizing the event, organizers
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Established in 2011, Women and Information Society is a non-profit Armenian organization that aims to empower women and girls in Armenia through information and communication technologies integrating them in the information society in Armenia. NGO activities are aimed at increasing the participation of women and girls in education, workforce, entrepreneurship, and leadership in ICT and related sectors. The organization partners with various stakeholders from private and public sectors (local and international).
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