World Summit on Information Society, WSIS Forum

This session will showcase Girls in ICT Day events from around the world, sharing experiences and highlight some of the most exciting activities this year. Panelists are invited to share their pictures and short videos to showcase their events. ITU certificates of recognition to Girls in ICT Day event organizers will also be awarded during the session. Girls in ICT Days are events where girls and young women are invited to spend the day at ICT companies, government offices and universities, meet with women ICT sector role models, participate in shadowing and mentoring programmes and engage in other activities that enable girls and young women to learn first-hand about the opportunities a career in the ICT sector holds. The ICT sector remains a growing sector for employment with an estimated global shortfall of over 2 million skilled ICT professionals. Nevertheless, there is often a lack of awareness among girls, young women, teachers and parents on the opportunities presented by a career in the ICT sector. Organizing Girls in ICT Days is one of the steps governments, industry and civil society can take to empower girls and young women to ride the technology wave to a brighter future.

Programme

• Welcoming remarks by Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, ITU
• Introduction by Mr Brahima Sanou, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU
• Brief address by H.E Ms Jasna Matic, State Secretary for Digital Agenda, Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society of the Republic of Serbia

List of Panelists:

Ms Magdalena Gaj, President of the Office of Electronic Communications, Poland

Ms Marta Arsovska-Tomovska, Deputy Minister of Information Society, the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia

Mrs Narine Abazian, President of the “Women and Information Society” NGO, Armenia

Mrs Shariffa al Meskary, Director, International Relations & Information, Information Technology Authority, Sultanate of Oman

Ms Martha Omoekpen Alade, Women in Technology in Nigeria

Mrs Salomé Ambeu, Secretary-General, Femmes TIC, Cote d’Ivoire

Mrs. Welskop-Deffaa, Director General for Gender Equality, German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Germany

Mrs Cheryl D. Miller, Founder of Zen Digital Europe (BE contact point for the European Centre for Women & Technology), and EU Director & Technology Chair of the Greenlight for Girls Foundation, Belgium

Mrs Cynthia Moncada, Chief, International and Inter-Institutional Relations Office, CONATEL, Honduras

Mrs Roxana Morán, INICTEL –UNI, Peru

Mrs Monique Morrow, CTO Asia Pacific & Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, organizer of over 40 Girls in ICT Day events worldwide

Mrs Bitilokho Ndiaye, Technical Counselor, Ministry of Communication and ICT, Senegal TBC

Prof. Dr. Wan Rozaini Sheik Osman, Director ITU-UUM Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Rural ICT Development, Universiti Utara, Malaysia and Ms AisyahShakirah Suhaidi, student at the Universiti Utara,  Malaysia

Ms. Ainura Sadyrbaeva, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, Kyrgyzstan                            

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AWARD OF CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION TO THE GIRLS IN ICT EVENT ORGANIZERS