iLab Liberia is to host its first programme in support of bridging the gender gap in the ICT industry.
The iLab summer programme, ‘iLab’s Python for Girls: programming Liberia’s future’, will train more than 100 young Liberian women through a career workshop and other social media-based courses.
Aimed at Liberian high school girls and university students who are interested in ICT careers, workshops take place over a few days, while courses are month-based.
The free training sessions will give participants access to programming classes, accompanied by equipment and internet connection for optimum growth of skills.
The programme will be “focusing on young women’s professional growth in a society that does not encourage young women’s participation in IT [which is] considered ‘men’s work’,” the iLab stated.
Funded by Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE), the iLab is also being visited by Google representatives as from today, June 3, as well as tomorrow, June 4.
iLab Liberia is a non-profit information technology non-governmental organisation (NGO) with the goal to provide facilities and expertise to the promotion of local IT use to the national advantage of the Liberian society.
