The Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded arrangements to launch gender based initiatives that will empower Nigerian women and girls.
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The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja last Tuesday.
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The initiatives to be launched on Monday next week are the SmartWoman Nigeria initiative, 1000 Girls in ICT Training programme and the ICT Girls Clubs geared at educating, empowering, developing and making women and girls in Nigeria ICT savvy and self- reliant.
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Two of the initiatives, the Smart Women Nigeria and the 1000 Girls ICT training programme, according to the Minister will be launched on the 4th of November in Lagos, while the ICT Girls Clubs will be launched in January 2014 respectively..The Ministry is collaborating with some partners to launch the initiative.
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The SmartWoman Nigeria platform. developed by US based social enterprise ChangeCorp will be launched in collaboration with WIMBIZ.
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Accordingly, the initiative seeks to promote the development of women in Nigeria by harnessing the power of mobile communication tools provided by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).