ITU launches web portal to help young women pursue technology careers

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The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a new web portal  focused on helping girls and women access job opportunities, training and career advice in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector.

 

The website is designed to help girls and young women aged 11-25 prepare for and pursue a technology career, providing links to scholarships, training and internships, ICT contests and awards, tech camps, online girls’ networks and other programmes that will give them a boost in entering what has become a largely male-dominated sector.

 

"It’s a little-known fact that women were the original programmers of ENIAC, the US government’s first ever computer. But while teenage girls now use computers and the Internet at rates similar to boys, they are five times less likely to consider a technology-related career," a press release from the ITU said in Geneva yesterday.