Minister of Information Technology, Anusha Rehman recently stated that the ICT for Girls Programme is now functional. She made this statement while speaking at Youth Parliament’s special session on ‘State of e-Governance and IT in Pakistan.’
Besides the revelation of the news, she also highlighted on few women-centric programs that are conducted at the national level. While addressing the audience, she said:
“The ICT for Girls Programme, aimed at training young girls with the latest advancement in technologies, is functional”
Coding and computing
Under the ICT for Girls Programme, the female students will get the training for coding and computing. Young girls from unpopular regions of Pakistan will get the necessary training. The government is getting all the assistance from Microsoft for this training series.
The government is confident that this training programme will essentially lead to economic empowerment. Moreover, the training will also help young girls to secure a decent job.
This is not the first time a training of this sort is functional. Under the similar training programme, 150 women empowerment centers were also established across the country.
The minister also ensured that the government is spending billions of rupees for the accessibility of telecom and broadband services across Pakistan. The penetration of broadband services was standing at mere 3% couple of years ago. However, the current standing is 24% and the government is quite gratified about it.
In addition to this training programme, the government is also conducting a study to provide 30,000 smartphones to women belonging to the lowest income group. Not too long ago, the government of Punjab decided to give smartphones to as many as 5 million small farmers to help them learn latest farming techniques.
Do you think this is an encouraging step from government to economic and women empowerment?
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