International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated worldwide every year on the fourth Thursday of April (24 April 2025). Girls in ICT Day provides an opportunity for girls and young women to see and be exposed to the benefit of ICT in enabling their career and aspiration. Since 2011, over 417,000 girls and young women have taken part in more than 11,590 celebrations of International Girls in ICT Day in 175 countries worldwide.
International Girls in ICT Day 2025 will be celebrated on 24 April under the theme “Girls in ICT for inclusive digital transformation”
The ICT sector is a growing sector for education in both developed and developing countries. This means that qualified female students in technical fields around the world have significant opportunities available to them. These are excellent opportunities in particular for highly skilled girls and young women who are still a minority when it comes to STEM education and careers. Developing initiatives and activities to promote and encourage girls to take up study in STEM and ICT is hence a requirement.
Girls in ICT Day Thailand initiative
Since 2017, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES-Thailand), Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC-Thailand) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) together with supportive partners, have been running a capacity building program aimed at imparting employable digital skills to girls and young women in Thailand training more than 3900 female students. In 2024, Girls in ICT Day celebration in Thailand was conducted in hybrid mode (face to face and virtual) from April to July. Over 1300 girls and young women participated in the three different tracks of training programmes such as leadership in digital transformation, digital skills empowerment and experiential learning journeys.
