Femmes Digitales - Intenational Girls of ICT Day "Let's try IT"

4/27/2017

CIS, Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan

International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated on the 4^th Thursday in April every year as a women’s day working or studying in ICT. This year Azerbaijan Women in ICT Club – "Femmes Digitales" conducted a series of events to demonstrate the perspectives of professional growth in ICT to schoolgirls and students.

In addition to the ceremony arranged on April 28 in the conference hall of the STEP IT Computer Academy, which gathered about 200 people, representatives of Femmes Digitales, a series of meetings in Baku schools and universities was held, covering a total of more than 1,000 girls who were told how to expand their knowledge, test their practical skills and get a new opportunity to change their life by getting acquainted with the ICT area. Teachers showed special interest in such meetings. In addition, for the girls visited the offices of Azerbaijani companies R.I.S.K. and Ultra Technologies, having the leading positions in the IT market of the country.

The practical seminars on web-programming, Scratch language, LEGO robotics, IT and Adobe Photoshop awareness were held in the classrooms of STEP IT Computer Academy on April 28. Also the representatives of MONT Azerbaijan informed the girls about the opportunities of the new Microsoft Office 365. The video conference with ITU representatives and counterparts from other countries was arranged, the coordinator of the ITU CIS Branch Office Farid Hakhli highly appreciated the efforts made by the Femmes Digitales in this direction and offered to escalate the initiative to the international level. A honorary guest of the event was an adviser to the Governor to the Ulyanovsk region, the Russian Federation, Ms. Svetlana Openisheva, who visited Azerbaijan to get acquainted with the operations principles of ASAN services.

Celebrating  the International Girls in ICT Day and the ICT activity of the Women’s Club of Azerbaijan Femmes Digitales allowed the participants including those girls and women who had their first experience in this initiative, to take a fresh look at the career opportunities opening in this interesting and dynamically developing area, ask the representatives for the large local IT companies about their work experience, informally  communicate to the Club’s founders — the women who have built their successful career in IТ.

This year the sponsors and the partners of the event were STEP IT Computer Academy, Microsoft Azerbaijan, Huawei, MONT Azerbaijan software distributor, Cybernet, Azercell and B.EST Solutions. Organizational issues were supported by the Public association «ASAN Könüllüləri» («ASAN Volunteers»). In the conclusion of the event all the participants of the International Girls in ICT Day were given souvenir gifts.

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R.I.S.K. Company held an excursion for a group of girls from schools within the frameworks of the event “International woman day in ICT” organized by the club “FEMMES DIGITALES (AWIC)”. The employees of the company talked to the girls interested in ICT sphere about the main directions of company activity. They touched upon the problem of developing skills for those spheres that bear much interest for a person. The managers of the company told how to develope skills in oneself as it plays crucial role in choosing the future profession and building one’s carrier. The girls met women working in various departments of the company, from the operator-designer of GIS centre to account manager.

About Club "Femmes Digitales":

Azerbaijan Women in ICT Club – "Femmes Digitales" is a non-profit organization established in 2014 with a goal to get more women excited about technology and IT. FEMMES DIGITALES has been designed to be an advocate for women who are currently working for technology companies and for those that may work for business in other market sectors working with technology in their roles. The mission of the Club is to bring together stakeholders from the business sector, the government, the academia and from non-governmental organizations, giving the opportunity to support and to work for increasing the women’s professional participation in the sphere of ICT, as well as to take part in the development of technological and engineering products.