By Sariba Manneh
Public Utilities Regulation Authority (PURA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI), celebrated the international girls in Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) day.
Event organizers say it is meant to inform women in this country the important of (ICT) in their activities and the world at large the event was held on 25th April, 2019 at QCity.
Ebrima Sillah, Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI), said this year celebration come for young girl to consider studying perusing career in glorying the field of (ICT).
According to him, this year remarks are to empower Gambian women to realize their full potential in 2018- 2021 national development plans (NDP) adding that the government of the Gambia has set aside numerous strategies and intervention gear toward the attainment of targets and resource agreed to by international and national standard.
He pointed out that the key outcome of the program is to enhance women participation in economy and ensure that they have the opportunities to improve and sustain their lively hood.
Mr. Momodou Lamin Sompo Cessay, acting director general of (PURA) said the international girls in (ICT) day is an initiative backed by ITU member states in 2010 to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of ICTs and to make gender mainstreamed in the ICT sector a priority.
“ICT has become an integral and accepted part of everyday life of every Gambian. The basis of financial system like money transfers, mass media, social and telecommunication and even the pre-paid electricity system,” he noted
He added that the (ICT) literacy will become a function requirement for every Gambians at work, social activity and personal lives.
