Tech training to enhance participation of girls in ICT

AN independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider across West Africa, Phase3 Telecom, is soliciting for early education and consistent technology training for the girl child in order to sustain them and active in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space.

According to the firm, it is collaborating with eBusiness Life Communications to mark the 2015 edition of the globally celebrated International Girls in ICT Day.

The Chief Executive Officer of Phase3 Telecom, Stanley Jegede , said, Girls in ICT initiative of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is a global effort to raise awareness on empowering and encouraging girls and young women to consider studies and careers in ICTs.

To date over 111,000 girls and young women have taken a part in more than 3,500 events held in 140 countries around the world.

In commemoration of the 2015 Girls in ICT, themed “Expanding Horizons and Changing Attitudes”, Jegede, said, early education, digitalized training as well as developing technology skills for women and harnessing those skills promptly, are critical to Africa’s rapid socio-economic development and sustainability.

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