Girls
Engage with us to empower girls through ICTs
Equipping girls worldwide with essential digital skills will ensure they access formal employment and entrepreneurship. ITU is committed to encouraging girls’ further pursuit of tech studies and careers and developing a programme to connect girls with role models and mentors.
To give future generations of girls an equal chance to benefit from technology, it is important they are equipped for tomorrow in robotics, artificial intelligence, genetics, biomedical engineering, and of course, computer science.
What do we offer?
EQUALS partners
The ITU and EQUALS partners have implemented this project to offer young women and girls’ access, free of charge, to a universally recognised digital skills training and certification programme, through online training and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workshops
CISCO EQUALS Learning Space
CISCO Networking Academy and EQUALS have joined forces to create a learning space where girls and young women can freely access specific training such as cybersecurity, entrepreneurship and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Girls Can Code
“Girls Can Code” strives to equip young girls with digital literacy, coding, and personal development through mentorship and digital skills development. This programme ensures the local and regional talent pool is expanded and better equipped with skills for the future and helps break down employment and entrepreneurship barriers for girls.
We have inspired thousands of girls to become programmers and ICT creators while encouraging them to pursue further education and careers in technology.
Girls in ICT
While girls across the world tend to outperform boys in reading and writing skills, they continue to be under-represented amongst top performers in science and mathematics-based subjects. With more support towards education and skills training for adolescent girls, we can empower the future Marie Curies and Rosalind Franklins of our time. Join us to celebrate Girls in ICT.