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Girls in ICT 2021

About Girls in ICT Day 2021 - Tech4Girls

Connecting Girls, Creating Brighter Futures!

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) backed initiative titled “Girls in ICT Day”. Girls in ICT Day is celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday in April. This initiative seeks “to encourage girls and young women to consider studies and careers in information and communication technologies (ICT)”. TATT has commemorated Girls in ICT Day since 2012.

“Tech4Girls: Connecting Girls, Creating Brighter Futures!” is a virtual e-commerce workshop on how to design, set-up and manage a business on Shopify. Shopify is a popular e-commerce platform used in Trinidad and Tobago that is affordable, offers great support and has a prolific and active online community.

The online e-commerce workshop using Shopify allows young female entrepreneurs to develop their business online. It also provides an avenue for additional revenue whereby these female entrepreneurs can commercialise their ICT skill set developed in the workshop.

The “Tech4Girls: Connecting Girls, Creating Brighter Futures!” workshop is intended to encourage and empower to innovate on their own.

This workshop is a working collaboration among TATT, CANTO, GSMA (in partnership with Verizon), Ministry of Public Administration and Digital Transformation (MPADT), Restore A Sense of I Can (RSC) and Tobago Information Technologies Limited (TITL) and other great partners.

Why Attend?

Level up and build your brand. This workshop teaches you how to build a shop on an e-commerce platform including:
  • Design the home page
  • Create essential pages
  • Add products in the store
  • Add discount codes
  • Set up a payment system
  • Make your Shopify store LIVE and ready for customers
This is a great way to build your network. This workshop provides an opportunity to get to know other female entrepreneurs.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Calling all females entrepreneurs between the ages 18 – 25 years old that are seeking to develop a business online.
  • Basic computer skills required.
  • Participants will need Internet access and a laptop/computer. If participants do not have a laptop/computer and/or unable to gain

Participants will need Internet access and a laptop/computer. If participants do not have a laptop/computer and/or unable to gain Internet access, then participants can access one of the nation’s ICT AccessTT Centre locations. Locations are as follows:

Trinidad:

  • Carenage
  • Guayaguayare
  • Marac
  • Penal
  • Todds Road

Tobago:

  • Signal Hill Centre

Resources

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