| Event Information |
Soronko Academy4/25/2019Africa, Ghana, East Legon, Accra, Ghana70 participantsThis year’s International Girls in ICT Day will draw on best practices, lessons and approaches that may attract more girls and young women into the ICT sector. Female role models in tech, participating women technologists will help students to be aware of the array of tech jobs available and the different pathways into the ICT sector and increase interest to studies in area, of ICT. There will be 70 girls who will be participating. We will start the day with a panel of four women in tech from MTN Ghana who will be interviewed by four girls. The panel will be like a fireside chat where the experienced women in in tech get to answer questions from girls who are aspiring to be like them. The panel will be themed “What I wish I knew when I was 16. Inspiring the next generation of Women in ICT” After the panel discussion there will be five exhibitions. All by women. The girls will get to experience and interact with applications and demo’s of
The girls will be placed in group and spend 5 mins at each stand. They will be given a problem and after visiting each stand they will come and present on what technology they will use to solve the problem. The girls will also take part in an international online campaign where they share their picture name and future career aspiration. This event is in partnership with MTN Ghana Foundation |