{"id":12306,"date":"2021-03-18T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:26","slug":"microsoft-to-equip-women-girls-in-africa-with-tech-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/03\/18\/microsoft-to-equip-women-girls-in-africa-with-tech-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to equip women, girls in Africa with tech skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft and Tech4Dev have partnered to equip women and girls in Africa with technology skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the Women Techsters Initiative, the women and girls aged 16 to 40 from across 54 countries in Africa, will be put through a one-year fellowship program. They will learn different skills including software development, product design, product management, data science, artificial intelligence engineering and cyber security, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft Philanthropies for Middle East and Africa, Director, Ms Ghada Khalifa said empowering women and girls with tech skills accelerates their access to decent jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When we empower girls and women in the ICT industry, through greater access to skills and training, we not only unlock innovation, but also economic opportunities,&#8221; said Ms Khalifa during the launch of the partnership on March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tech start-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the tech skills, the beneficiaries are expected to start tech-enabled businesses and deep tech start-ups, thereby promoting the continent&#8217;s economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech4Dev Executive Director Ms Diwura Oladepo said the initiative will bridge the gender gap in the technology space in the continent. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202103180086.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and Tech4Dev have partnered to equip women and girls in Africa with technology skills. Under the Women Techsters Initiative, the women and girls aged 16 to 40 from across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}