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24-hour World tour of Girls in ICT Day celebrations highlights

​​​​​​​Welcome to the 24h World tour of Girls in ICT Day Celebrations highlights

International Girls in ICT Day is an ITU initiative and global movement to encourage and empower girls and young women to consider studies and careers in ICTs. In 2020, International Girls in ICT Day will be celebrated on 23 April. Since 2011, more than 362 000 girls and young women have taken part in more than 11 000 celebrations in 171 countries worldwide.

Despite the global pandemic, many active partners of this global movement have made remarkable and inspiring efforts to transform their on-site events into exciting virtual activities to celebrate Girls in ICT Day 2020, thus effectively demonstrating the power of technology!

The “24h World Tour of Girls in ICT Day celebrations highlights" will feature some of the virtual celebrations taking place all over the world on 23 April 2020.

​Stay tuned for the promotion of these events on Twitter @ITU_BDTDirector and the ITU Girls in ICT Facebook page

​​​Time (GMT+2) Event Title
Organizer
Country / Local Time
00:00 Commonwealth Girls in ICT Creativity and Innovation Challenge
GSMA, Commonwealth Businesswomen's Network and Flow in Action
Global / Full day
06:00 Women Rock IT
Cisco
Singapore / 12:00
06:20 NexGen Tech Girls: Poised for Success
Oracle Corporate Citizenship
India / 10:00
07:00 Girls in ICT Day: online-marathon with inspiring women
СSR Ukraine and UNFPA Ukraine
Ukraine / 08:00
8:00 GIRLS giving old tech new life
TechPearl
Malawi / 08:00
8:30 Girls in ICT Day Event
Iran's Information Technology Organization (ITO)
Iran / 11:00
10:00 Girls in ICT Day-2020 at KNUCA
Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts
Ukraine / 11:00
11:00 BBC celebration of International Girls in ICT Day
BBC STEM and BBC WiSTEM
United Kingdom / 10:00
Virtual meeting "Día Internacional das Rapazas nas TIC"
Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)
Spain / 11:00
Cisco Girls in ICT - Italy
CISCO Networking Academy Italy
Italy / 11:00
STEAM Learning: Stay safely at home and learn Digital Art
Women in Digital
Bangladesh / 15:00
12:00 Super Code Girl Online
HOW I LEARNED CODE
Spain / 12:00
MUSODEV Girls in ICT Day
MUSODEV - Association for the Promotion of Women through ICT
Mali / 10:00
13:00 Virtual seminar (Introduction to Distance learning platform)
Belarusian State Academy of Communications (BSAC)
Belarus / 14:00
14:00 Girls in ICT - Virtual Day
Oracle Academy Brazil
Brazil / 09:00
International Girls in ICT celebration​
W.TEC in conjunction with COMPSUDEV - Cameroon
Nigeria / 13:00
Overcoming Digital Challenges
Internet Society Armenia Chapter, Internet Society NGO
Armenia / 16:00
15:00 WITIN Girls in ICT 2020: Digital Skills for Girls
Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN)
Nigeria / 14:00
15:30 Weeklong online celebration of Girls in ICT Day
Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)
Bangladesh / 11:30
16:00  Girls in ICT - Palestine. "Be positive, the sky is your limit."
Ministry of Telecom and IT Palestine and others
Palestine / 17:00
CARICOM Digital Dialogue: Regional Resilience - ICT, STEM and Youth ​
CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership
Guyana / 10:00
16:30  W-STEM International Roundtable for Girls in ICT (online) / W-STEM Mesa redonda para chicas en las TIC (en línea)
W-STEM project - Building the Future of Latin America: Engaging women into STEM
Colombia / 09:30
Driving Digital Transformation for Women and Girls in the Commonwealth through Mobile: Unlocking the Potential of Small States
GSMA, Commonwealth Businesswomen's Network, ITU, UNCDF and EQUALS
UK / 15:30
17:00  #iamWITy Making Your Mark in this Digital World
Youth Can Do I.T.
Jamaica / 10:00
Masterclass with Cristina Pardo
ASTI Talent and Technology Foundation
Spain / 17:00
18:00  RSC celebrating Girls in ICT DAY​
Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC Tech Clubs), Trinidad & Tobago; Caribbean Girls Hack/SheLeadsIT, Barbados; Center for Digital Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing - Caribbean Maritime University and others.
Jamaica / 11:00
IngeniosasTIC: conversaciones para inspirar / IngeniosasTIC: inpiring conversations
"Ingeniosas: Ciencia y Tecnología para todas"
Chile / 12:00
19:00  Qu'est-ce que l'Intelligence Artificielle ?
mJangale
Senegal / 17:00
Girls in ICT Day - Platforms to get into the technology world
ValPat STEAM Channel
Spain / 19:00
20:00 Women in Coding: Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in R and Rstudio
The American University Internet Governance Lab
Washington, D.C., USA / 14:00
23:00  Chicas TEC
Telefónica
Perú / 16:00
Online Mobile Apps Development Hands on Workshop with Live Instructors
Vijay Computer Academy (VCA)
Texas, USA / 16:00
Online work​shop - Diseñamos para otr@s
IdeaTICn and Laboratoria
Mexico / 16:00
EL LÍMITE ME LO PONGO SOLO YO: THE LIMIT IS PUT ONLY BY ME
Facultad Regional Resistencia - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Argentina / 18:00
Código femenino (female code)​
CONEXION El Salvador
El Salvador / 15:00 ​
24:00​​ Online workshop - Crea tus primeros programas con JavaScript
IdeaTIC and Laboratoria
Mexico / 17:00
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