The Vodacom Business Nigeria has organized a one-day industrial
visit for female students from Grace High School, Gbagada and Lagoon Secondary
School, Lekki as part of planned activities for the celebration of the recently
concluded 7th Edition of the International Girls in ICT Day,
reports ITRealms.
Female students from the schools participated at the celebration
where they won the Coding and STEM quiz competitions, respectively.
The International Girls in ICT Day Celebration was organized by
e-Business Life Communication Limited, publishers of e-Business Life Magazine
at the Oriental Hotel in Lekki, was part of a global campaign that seeks to
encourage young girls to consider ICT as a profession and to contribute their
quota to the growth of the industry in Nigeria while also actualizing
self-development.
International Girls’ in ICT Day is an initiative launched through the Information Technology University (ITU) with the idea of creating a global environment that will empower and encourage girls and young women to consider careers in the ICT field. With the number of school girls opting to study technology-related disciplines in decline in most countries worldwide, ITU has committed itself towards championing the mindset change required to open the minds of young women to the role a career in tech can play in creating exciting, far-reaching opportunities for women.
In fulfilment of goal five of its Sustainable Development Goals,
Vodacom Business has created various empowerment programs such as the Women in
Leadership Programme aimed at creating leadership and personal capacity in
women across all employee levels; the #ConnectedSheCan campaign, a socially
driven campaign aimed at celebrating the accomplishments of women within the
Vodacom Business Nigeria workforce; and the youth empowerment program, the
‘Power to You’ project under the umbrella of which the Girls in ICT Day is
activated, to enable both girls and technology companies to reap the benefits
of greater female participation in the ICT sector.
Speaking at this year’s Girls in ICT Day, Vodacom Business
Nigeria’s Senior Manager for Product Development, Funke Atanda said: “Vodacom
is committed to accelerating the change needed to create relevant opportunities
for women through the use of ICT.”
“By supporting ICT skills acquisition for young girls, bringing
them into our organizations and opening their minds to new technologies that
exist and continue to develop, we are able to encourage more girls to choose
courses in the ICT sector. This will help increase the number of women in the
ICT sector in the near future,” Atanda said.
Moreover, Atanda alluded that “Initiatives like the ITU Girls in
ICT Day would go a long way towards encouraging this change, thus strengthening
the sector while continuing to improve social and economic progression in the country.”
By providing donations, training and support to ICT driven
programs, Vodacom Business Nigeria is accelerating the removal of barriers for
girls and women in the ICT industry.
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