NextGen Girls aims upscaled ISOC 25 Under 25 Award winner "Respect Girls on Internet", project by developing a network of University and high school girls studying IoT. The goal of the project is developing females to pursue emerging IoT security careers to help build safer and secure IoT environment at homes, workplaces and in their communities. The emergence of pocket sized computing devices, capable of electronic switching, sensing, controlling equipment, video and audio has created a new paradigm shift in home automation, business, agriculture, transport , environment technologies.

The IoT systems used in internet core. Unsecured uses of IoT, specially at homes endanger safety and breach privacy of individuals and families. Women are the most vulnerable as IoT have been misused to invade women privacy for sex revenge, harassment, data breach and other scams. Obtaining support from male experts in the event of IoT breach is a risk says women safety activists.

The solution is develop IoT and security skills among women to safe guard homes, workplaces and community from IoT breaches. Women becoming IoT security experts immensely contributes to gender equality, diversity and growth in female IoT economy. Shilpa Sayura Partnered with Dialog Ideamart supported by AlgoHack community and ISOC Sri Lanka to implement the initiative.

The activities included creating IoT and Security Curriculum with Internet governance, Privacy, IPV6, IoT,, Networking, Information Security and web technologies trained 80 University students to become Internet Security Educators. They trained 200 of their peers and made awareness to 800 school girls and teachers in IoT safety.

6 workshops and 24 live online training sessions conducted , two IoT and Security hackathon conducted with over 60% girls participation; developed a sustainable women led university community network specializing in IoT and security, advocating IoT safety and providing training and support for victims increasing women in IoT and Security field.

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• Sri Lanka

• Youth
• Women
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Remote and rural communities

Any University and High schools anywhere in the world

The outcomes of NextGen Gilrs has developed of a sustainable women led university students community network specializing in IoT and security, advocating IoT safety and providing training and support for victims while increasing women participation in IoT and Security field. NextGen Girls community shall long term becomes a women lead Organisation with NextGen Learning Clubs at each university with peer to peer learning and providing support and services for IoT and Security. They will continue to use equipment provided and knowledge sharing in their universities. The project shared all learning material online so can be used by anyone to learn.

NextGen Girls Harness the potential of using Internet of Things (IoT) safeguarding Homes, office and business with privacy, safety and security of vulnerable women, by building people-centred, inclusive and women IoT and Security professionals program that help women to achieve their full potential in sustainable development and improving their IoT and Security Skills to bridge the gender gap in IoT and Security sector. The project by enabling education of IoT security and safety among women and children help protect privacy human rights. By reaching marginalised University girls out side promotes equality and fundamental freedoms, including the right right to work and education by women. By creating a local language modern IoT and Security carriculam contributes to inclusive development of information society making scientific and technical advances among vulnerable youth. By providing free education of IoT and Security otherwise not accessible to them contributes to human progress, endeavour and well-being, user technologies to reduce traditional obstacles, especially those of time and distance using ICT innovatively. Develop future generation of young people as a valauble workforce as leading innovators of IoT to benefit fully from the new opportunities in IoT field with a special focus of services to respects the rights of children as well as their protection and well-being. Provides enormous opportunities for women making them the integral part of, and key actors of IoT in Sri Lanka. We provided hardware resources to empower the poor, living in remote, rural and marginalized urban areas to learn IoT. Building confidence and security in the use of IoT. Establishing women lead trusted network for IoT services with information and network security, authentication, privacy and consumer protection for the development of a true knowledge society using IoT.