Girls in ICT

How can more girls be encouraged to join ICT? A discussion on the International Day for the Girls in ICT

- DR ARCHANA VERMA

International Day for Girls in ICT, celebrated on 25th of April, was begun in 2010 by The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a telecom wing of the UN, to encourage girls to take up study and research in the ICT fields. It is a fact that women remain in the minority in ICT fields across the world. To make the world more equal and diverse, this day was started.

This year’s theme is Leadership. Even if women come in the ICT related fields, there is a stiff opposition from the senior management about giving decision making powers to the women. Few women manage to reach a senior decision making position and many factors play to help them reach there, even outside the domain of their abilities and achievements in ICT.

Hence, even if girls come into the fields of ICT, they have to learn the true atmosphere of the corporate nature of ICT and they will have to learn how to reach the leadership positions.

Comments from Women Leaders in ICT

NEHA SAMPAT
FOUNDER & CEO, CONTENTSTACK