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Empowering Girls and Women through Technology
The Global Gender Gap Report 2022 by the World Economic Forum paints a grim picture: it will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. However, rather than pointing fingers and presenting disappointing stats, we have an opportunity to close the gap. Technology is one of the fastest-growing industries globally, and for it to thrive, it requires more labour supply. In Africa, women constitute almost half the workforce population. Their full incorporation into the tech and innovation industry therefore, is a crucial human resource for profitable enterprise and sustainable economic growth.
Anchored on SDG 5: GenderEquality, Coding in Heels is a girls and women focused, skill-based initiative by Zoezi Education Solutions, meant to equip girls and women with technical and non-technical skills key to starting and running tech-enabled businesses, creating livelihoods, and participating in building the nation through enterprise.
Specifically, Target 5.8 seeks to ‘promote empowerment of women through technology’, and is the basis of this initiative.
Through writing codes, creating sequences, patterns and process-based solutions, girls and women practice sequential and logical thinking skills in real life problem-solving.
Coding and programming skills, critical in building mobile apps, websites, databases, and other products and platforms that can be commercialized to earn livelihoods or create jobs.
Ability to think creatively and innovatively and use locally available resources to solve problems.
Design thinking skills that help girls and women understand their customers better and provide goods and services that meet their needs.
Business planning skills to empower girls and women to start and run both small and medium-sized businesses, including: budgeting/financial management; marketing and sales; communication and negotiation; time management; and networking.
Through exposure to Responsible AI girls and women acquire skills to help them use Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethically and safely for personal and business growth.
Through working together on projects, girls and women will acquire collaboration and project management skills necessary for community building and social change.
Responsible, safe and ethical use of technology will be incorporated in all courses and learning areas.
Digital literacy skills key for optimum productivity in the digital economy.
Self-leadership through self-guided learning, tasks and projects.
Better personal and social understanding through Social and Emotional Learning skills (SELs): self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making skills.
To achieve this cause, we look forward to partnering with individuals, corporates and non-profits to implement transformative coding programs, business courses and mentorship to empower our girls and women for the digital economy.
Partnerships attract discounted course prices as well as customizable user-specific course curriculum.
