AI skills accelerator for girls

To enhance digital skills for girls and women on the latest trends in technology for Artificial Intelligence, the ITU Development Sector and EY have joined forces to implement “AI skills accelerator for girls”, a 2-year programme to address the challenge of ensuring girls’ and women’s access to the latest and emerging trends in technology.

This programme will benefit girls and women, particularly from marginalized and underserved communities, by providing them with the necessary digital, ethical, and managerial skills to become content creators, and to boost creativity and innovation in solving challenges at the community level using AI.

In 2 years, the expected results are:

• 1000 girls and young women will be trained at in-person workshops where they will receive knowledge, mentoring and expert support to develop solutions for communities.
• The workshops will take place in 12 countries around the globe – 2 countries per ITU region. The countries will be selected at a later date.
• Participants will have the opportunity to compete to win a chance to attend an ITU event on AI.

The project will be implemented by the ITU Development Sector in collaboration with EQUALS and EY.