Girls Go IT Nigeria, has kicked off its summer boot camp in Mushin area of Lagos for girls from secondary schools in Lagos. The initiative is a social development platform intent on empowering girls from rural and under-served communities to acquire digital and information technology skills
Kunle Afolayan, Programme Manager of ‘Girl GO IT’ Nigeria, said, “Digital and ICT skills are invaluable in today’s world. Our seasonal boot camp will be focused on bringing ICT to girls in rural communities, we recognize that acquiring these skills offer them limitless opportunities for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment. Our aim is to set girls, who ordinarily may never have been exposed to ICT, on the path to innovation, flexibility and financial freedom.”
“Though we’ve seen some an increase in the number of Nigerians embracing careers in IT, web designers and ICT hardware engineering, there is still a huge gap in the ratio of men to women in the industry and this is what we are joining other like-minded organisations across the world to bridge by helping young girls go IT.” Mr Abayomi Ogundipe, Project Lead added.
The camp which commenced on July 23 will run till October 2016. The course syllabus comes in three modules of Personal Development where the students will learn the concept of team work and discovery, Product Prototyping where they will learn about ideation, development and offline web mapping through paper drawing. The third module is the Web App Development where the will learn full stack HTML&CSS, JavaScript and database management.
Girls Go IT was originally founded in Moldova with the vision of boosting the entrepreneurship and innovation capacity of women and girls by empowering them to acquire digital and IT Skills. The organisation plans to increase the number of Nigerian participants in its training by covering more rural areas of the country as the programme unfolds.
