The Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication (MINTTICS) advocated greater commitment to the implementation of policies and programs to increase the digital inclusion of young people, especially girls, as well as the development of skills and initiatives in technical and professional education and training.
This way of thinking came through an official note from that public institution, in reference to the International Day of Girls and ICT, marked on April 28, revealing that Africa has the biggest gender digital divide (25 percent) and only 29 percent 46 percent of women have Internet access in West Africa, compared to 57 percent in Asia and XNUMX percent in Latin America.
For MINTTICS, as technology plays a role in all types of careers, from art and history to law, from primary school to graphic design, learning technical skills at an early age will set girls up for economic independence and beyond. .
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Also in the statement, he adds that 65 percent of children entering primary school today will have jobs that do not yet exist, noting that the jobs of the future will be implemented by innovative technology.
"The Angolan Government, through the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, has supported the inclusion of girls and boys with special educational needs, by providing schools with multidisciplinary support teams, educational inclusion and educational software that allow to stimulate the curiosity and learning, based on ICT“, can be read in the note.
It should also be informed that in allusion to this event, MINTTICS and the UNITEL held last week the XI forum of the Day of the Girls and the TIC, under the motto “Access and security“, which featured technological exhibitions by young female students from various education institutes, such as ITEL, IMIL and Alda Lara.
The meeting aimed to provide moments of interaction and motivation, through the transmission of experience and knowledge of former scholarship holders who are now UNITEL Collaborators.
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