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IN its bid to create awareness among young girls on the need to embrace careers in Information and Communication Technologies, ICT, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and MTN Nigeria will partner with the eBusiness Life Communication Limited to 2016 International Girls in ICT Day.
This year’s event, scheduled to hold in Lagos on April 28, at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, the fifth since eBusiness Life joined the annual campaign in 2012, is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, geared at sensitising young girls and encouraging them to take up ICT as a career.
The NCC has consistent partnership with eBusiness Life in driving this campaign since it began in 2012 because of the regulators’ readiness to enter into strategic alliances with the private sector as well as international organisations for the actualisation of the ICT vision and also the development of human capital in the country with emphasis on creating and supporting a knowledge-based economy.
MTN’s support is borne out of the quest to ensure that the Nigerian girl child is presented with all options available in shaping her career and ensuring that the profession of ICT is demystified among females. The company has consistently been engaged in development of human capital through various initiatives. The partnership with eBusiness Life is one of such vehicles that will help the operator achieve its goals.
According to Ufuoma Emuophedaro, chief executive officer, eBusiness Life Communication, the need to sensitise young girls is premised on the fact that the society has unconsciously relegated the female gender and delegated careers in technical fields, especially in ICT, to their male counterparts.
She noted that effort should be made to introduce young girls to career opportunities in technical fields in both the public and private sectors to help them have a wider range of options and contribute their quota in the industry and in the development of the economy. She stated that the ICT Girls’ Day workshop and attending campaign will further open up opportunities for girls in ICT sector.
— Apr 4, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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