Event Information

Girls in ICT Day Seminar and Expo - Enabling ICT Environment in East New Britain Province

4/26/2017

Asia & pacific, Papua new guinea, Kokopo, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

         

As part of commemorating the International Girls in ICT Day which takes place every last Thursday of April, there will be an ICT Seminar and Expo taking place in Kokopo.

The theme of the Seminar: Enabling the ICT Environment in East New Britain

Session cover broad range of sectors and speakers are given 10minutes each on their session and area.  Women in ICT will also share their experience in the field and in the various sectors.

The participants will include female students from schools in East New Britain and other invited participants.  The Seminar aims to showcase how ICT is applied in various sectors and for participants to grasp an understanding and overview of work in the field of ICT in the various sectors, should they wish to pursue an ICT Career.
 ICT Companies and representatives to participate in this event in the following ways:

  • Set up a display of your organization and your service and/or products
  • A representative from your organization or ICT Department to speak for 10minutes during a session in the Seminar
  • Donate or give sponsorship towards the event and/or future upcoming Girls In ICT / Tech Events

  There will be a 2-hour hands rotational learning practical experience for the girls after the seminar - Learning to Code, Blogging, ICT Hardware, Database Development, Digital Technology , Networking (depending on the facilitators available)

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With over 60 female students and about 5 male attendees, the ICT Seminar included speakers from ISP companies, Digicel PNG, Telikom PNG, InfoCom and Corporate users such as Rabaul Volcano Observatory and Lava Girl, a start-up entrepreneur in Kokopo.

Special guests - Mrs Bosa Togs, ICT Manager of Telikom PNG and young graduate female engineer flew in from Port Moresby to Kokopo to commemorate the day with us.

Sunday LearnToCode events will be taking place soon, starting in June!

Thank you Girls In ICT - till 2018!! :D