International Girls in ICT Day is an afternoon instituted through the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). On eighth April 2011, ITU introduced the established order of a worldwide "Girls in ICT Day", if you want to be held every 12 months on the fourth Thursday in April. Girls around the sector accumulated on the twenty-eighth of April 2011 to have fun on the primary annual International Girls in ICT Day.

The day celebrates ladies' pastimes and strengths and encourages them to pick out a profession in statistics and verbal exchange technology to bridge the gender hole withinside the ICT zone. The topic for this 12 months birthday party is “Access and Safety”. For ladies and younger ladies to thrive in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers, they want secure and dependable get right of entry to the net and virtual equipment. “Girls in ICT Day” is well known in over a hundred and fifty nations around the sector.

ITU estimates a competencies shortfall of over a million jobs withinside the statistics and verbal exchange generation (ICT) zone in the subsequent 5 years. “Girls and younger ladies who examine coding, apps development, and pc technology will now no longer most effective be well-positioned for a successful profession withinside the ICT zone, however, ICT competencies are unexpectedly turning into a sturdy gain for college students in pretty much every other area they may pick out to pursue,” the declaration noted.

This 12-month IIPGH celebrated this occasion with ladies from the Muslim groups in Achievers Ghana Foundation. The girl volunteers got here to the venue with PCs, and three-D printers and used the event to introduce the ladies to coding and three-D design. 512202285515-1h830o4bau-picture2 This 12 months birthday party is on the topic: ‘Access & Safety’ which objectives at selling the want for secure and dependable get right of entry to the net and virtual equipment for ladies and younger ladies.

Coding is the language of a generation. Just like how maximum folks found out English, French, and others whilst we have been youngsters for powerful verbal exchange with people, coding is a regularly occurring language that allows commands to be translated to automatic machines to behave in keeping with the meant commands. In different words, Coding or Computer Programming makes it feasible for us to create pc software programs, apps, and websites. Our browser, Operating System, the apps on our phones, Facebook, and WhatsApp, amongst others, have been advanced thru Coding.

To put together the following era for the 21st-century technological world, the Administrative Director of the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) Madam Gifty Mottey led a group of girl volunteers from the Institute to mark this 12 months’ International Girls in ICT Day with a coding workshop for ladies at Achievers Ghana Foundation in Maamobi-Nima. The ladies among the while of 6 - sixteen years from the Muslim network have been very excited to be uncovered to coding for the primary time. She admonished the ladies to include coding as it may be used as a device to step up and emerge as designers, creators, and leaders in this fast-evolving tech world.

“It’s time we construct a gender-equitable virtual destiny that meets everybody’s needs” Madam Mottey emphasized. She in addition furnished quick profession steering to the younger ones, several of whom aspire to emerge as style designers, doctors, and scientists amongst others. “By getting to know to code, you may follow the competencies to possibilities in a number of those profession domain names as getting to know to code will now no longer always make you a pc scientist, however, will assist you to broaden essential wondering and problem-fixing competencies in each area you locate yourselves” the Administrative Director of IIPGH disclosed. IIPGH group of girl volunteers in generation got here for the workshop completely organized with over fifty (50) laptops and three-D printers.

The group installed their coding equipment in the schooling centre of Achievers Ghana Foundation with the assistance of their PR Madam Ayisha Mohammed and her group of energic instructors. The workshop started with movies of coding task displays through different college students who participated incomparable packages prepared through IIPGH. Videos of college students' online coding packages and the coding caravan amongst others performed to the individuals served as sufficient motivation as different youngsters their age have been capable of doing comparable activities.

The testimonials withinside the movies boosted their morale in readiness for the day’s activities. One of the important things girl volunteers of IIPGH, Madam Muniratu Musah, a girl engineer from MTN Ghana who turned into very instrumental in organizing the workshop introduced the whole remarks. Being an engineer and girl STEM advocate, she stimulated the ladies together along with her lifestyle tale and the way her dedication led her adventure to emerge as an engineer withinside the telecommunication profession.

“I am the most effective girl engineer in my branch consequently be targeted at the want to examine programming at a younger age, that allows you to clear up problems, and the advantages for the destiny, to be innovative and innovative, essential and good judgment thinkers” she added.

Ms. Deborah Ofori-Dartey and Ms. Barbara Asiamah who are young coding training professionals from the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana helped the ladies create interesting video games and animations. The realistic consultation turned out very interesting for the ladies as they have been taught the way to use the Scratch programming language to conceptualize and broaden their cartons and video games. Ms. Ofori-Dartey led a completely interactive elegance and helped the youngsters with the simple idea of programming with scratch software programs advanced through MIT.

During the quiet of the 2hour consultation, the youngsters created a ghost sport which they performed amidst screaming and excitement. They couldn't agree with they simply created a sport all through themselves and will play it at the identical time. The 2d programming language, Tinkertoys, which is ready to design items in three-D turned into led through Ms. Barbara Asiamah, After the Tinkertoys' realistic consultation, the ladies got here in batches across the three-D printers in which Ms. Asiamah tested to them how the three-D printer functions. The ladies have been capable of printing a number of the objects designed all through the Tinkertoys realistic consultation after getting to know the way to perform the 3G printer. Every baby turned into satisfied to take domestic a toy.

In total, forty-three ladies participated withinside the application and the ladies have been given presents to take domestic. Background of IIPGH Coding Initiative Since March 2018, the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) with its companions launched a prime initiative to get youngsters, teenagers, graduates, and experts to examine Computer Programming or what's being referred to as Coding. The initiative turned into designed to offer established schooling for college students beginning with youngsters.

To create recognition approximately the significance of coding, specifically for younger people, workshops, radio, and tv communication indicates have been prepared. Online Coding Lessons In April 2020 all through the primary Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana in partnership with GoDi Africa moved the coding application online.

The classes which might be now being introduced thru Zoom had been embraced by each college student and parent. For parents, it's far handy as they'll now no longer need to force each weekend to the schooling centre for or their wards’ coding classes. The college students also are satisfied with the net classes due to the fact all classes are recorded and shared with them. This makes it feasible for college students to playback the whole lesson for revision or to seize up with any consultation missed. Visit https://iipgh.org/iipgh-coding-task/ for extra details.

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