eSkills Malta Foundation - Launch of ‘Guidelines to Increase and Retain Women in ICT’

4/11/2018

Europe, Malta, Malta

The eSkills Malta Foundation is the National Coalition forming part of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs. Most of the Digital Coalitions host pledges to increase the participation of girls and women in digital jobs. As part of the Digital Agenda, the eSkills Malta Foundation has made this an important part of its objectives.

The Foundation is aware that, despite the evidence that allowing more women to enter the digital jobs market can create an annual € 9 billion GDP boost in the EU area, there is still a very large ICT gender gap in Europe. With this in mind, the eSkills Malta Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the ‘Guidelines to Increase and Retain Women in ICT’. The guidelines have been drawn up to help in addressing the issue of the low percentage of women in the ICT sector. These guidelines are aimed at all the relevant stakeholders, be they small, medium and large enterprises together with NGOs, gender equity advocacy coalitions, the media, educators, career advisors, the government and decision makers.

The launch will be attended by Hon Minister Helena Dalli, Minister for European Affairs and Equality and Hon Silvio Schembri Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services, Digital Economy & Innovation. Both Hon members will be taking part in the panel discussion.

The launch will be held on Wednesday 11^th April 2018 at the MITA Data Centre Sta Venera at 1030hrs, and we are pleased to invite you to this event.

Please register here: http://bit.ly/2CLOyiZ. Agenda: http://bit.ly/2oCbGLJ