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Celebrating Girls and Women in ICT4/25/2019The Americas, United states, Cornell Tech, West Loop Road, New York, NY, USA60 participantsInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations International Computing Centre (ICC), Women in IT and Entrepreneurship New York (WITNY) and UNICEF, working with New York City Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, would like to invite you to a meetup on April 25, 2019 at Cornell Tech. International Girls in ICT Day 2019, New York City International Girls in Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Day (see ITU website) aims to encourage and empower girls and young women around the globe to consider studies and careers in the growing field of ICTs, enabling both girls, young women, technology companies and UN Agencies to gain the benefits of greater female participation in the ICT sector. Even the underlying definitions of ICT are changing as all so much of our innovation and progress across all spheres of life depend on ICT today. Our Event Girls and young women will meet women technologists from United Nations organizations, NGOs, the private sector and academia. The goal is to inspire and encourage girls and young women’s interests in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) by meeting dynamic role models. The session will focus on group discussion and activities on themes behind International Girls in ICT Day. Sponsored last year by ITU, ICC, UNICEF as well as WIPO and Build n Blaze, we met at the Microsoft Technology Center with Women in Tech from Afrocrowd, Barclays, Build n Blaze, Charity Navigator, Decoded Americas, Game Changer, ICC, ITU, Microsoft, Mozilla, Tata Consultancy, Telstra Enterprise, UNDP, UN Global Pulse, UNICEF, UN OICT, UN Women and WITNY. Women and girls got to know each other and work in groups to present some challenge projects to the group. See story from last year. Who 20 Women in Tech professionals, 20 college-aged women and 20 STEM middle school students. We have the great pleasure to have Lee Kim, Design Thinking Facilitator (see BloomSpace), to run the design thinking workshop. Where Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island When April 25, 2019 2:00-5:00 pm Agenda 2:00-2:15 Arrival Please RSVP by 29 March to save your seat and join us! We’d like to have your full name, title, organization, email address and please send a hi-res head shot photo and a one-paragraph bio to emilie.schwarz@itu. #girlsinict #equalsintech #SDG5 |