"The WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM in ICT sector is a national program providing opportunities for all, and particularly women, sits at the heart of our plan for digitizing the Kingdom. Target audience: All women interested in technology, employees, students, managers, or entrepreneurs. Major objectives: Bridging the gender gap in the ICT sector. Activities: Multiple events under the program such as: I. Women Empowerment Summit II. Women in Data Science; in corporation with Stanford University. III. She Inspires: Ramadan weekly Webinars about Women In Tech IV. Women Training workshops To close the gender divide, we have launched an extensive program for Women ICT inclusion, which includes 5 main streams: 1. She Inspires; Meetups and evets to raise awareness about women in Tech. 2. She Thrives; Digital Skills for Girls. A sustainable training project to targeting to upskill women in ict workforce as per the market needs, future technology trends, and to inject new women talents in the market pipeline. Our goal is to train 8000 lady by the end of 2020. So far, we’ve trained more than 6904 girls in emerging tech such as; AI, block chain, Data science, IoT, and much more. 3. She Works; Raising Women participation in ICT sector. MCIT is working closely with Ministry of HR and created specialized national program to raise women participation in ICT sector. 4. She Leads: Women Leadership Program A designed a PAID C -level executive training program, to enable women developing new leadership skills, and to prepare them for key executive roles in ICT market. 5. She Innovates; Women ICT Entrepreneurship Innovation and entrepreneurship is a driving force for industry 4.0. Women custom-made initiative were designed to help starting their own business and become employers instead of job-seekers.

https://www.mcit.gov.sa/en/futureskills/227280

• Saudi Arabia

• Youth
• Women

Yes, it’s a continues work over different streams in the sector. For example, the first summit were done in 2018 when MCIT newly launched the women empowerment division. Tech Champions first phase is done with 30% of women. Data science bootcamp first badge scored more than 51% women, and the later phases of such projects are expected to have more women.

The WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM in ICT sector is a national program providing opportunities for all, and particularly women, sits at the heart of our plan for digitizing the Kingdom

Innovative business modules and public private partnerships “PPP” between government and enterprise to encourage the market to hire more women. Funds and subseries were established to support the private sector to hire women at an early stage of their career. Also, the program designed training material that are addressing the business needs of the employers. We’ve went further and created partnerships with many universities and revisited their syllabus along with private sector representatives to make sure that were graduating caliber that will add to the market to make sure they get hired.