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Event Name
Online awareness talks to promote the girls inclusion in ICT degrees in schools
Date of the event
23/04/2020
Country
Spain
City
In different spanish provinces: Valladolid, Cuenca, Valencia and Madrid.
Description of the event

As part of International Girls in ICT Day we made 4 online awareness talks in different spanish schools during the week of April 23rd. 

The aim of this face-to-face workshops is to promote the girls inclusion in ICT degrees. We will make a review of the woman figure in history of tecnologies and we will motivate the girls through the actually examples of entrepreneurship ICT women. 

The target are teenagers from 13 to 18 years old. We want to involucrate boys and girls because we think that is important to educate and fight for the gender equality since the begginig ages. 

Website
https://www.cibervoluntarios.org/es/
Entity organizing the event, organizers
Fundacion Cibervoluntarios is a non-profit organization shaped by socialentrepreneurs with a recognized and awarded trajectory since 2001. Our mission isto ensure that all people have, equally, the opportunity to access, learn and use newtechnologies to improve their quality of life and foster citizen participation and socialinnovation.All our activities and projects are focused on facilitating the social, ethical andresponsible knowledge of ICT tools with a clear goal: to offer creative and innovativesolutions to social needs, with citizens in the center. We work to increase citizenshiprights, giving them opportunities through digital skills.Fundación Cibervoluntarios developes its projects in Spain and in Europe. Our workis based on collaboration with other entities and organizations. We address people atrisk of socio-digital exclusion for different reasons: gender, age, professional andsocial environment, lack of digital skills, motivation or material or economicresources, among others. We focus our actions to put people at the center of socialand digital transformation.