International Day for Girls in ICT celebrated in Tripoli

In collaboration with CCG, the Chamber for Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Tripoli and the North (CCIA) celebrated yesterday the International Day for Girls in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which aims to encourage and open up employment opportunities for young girls in that field. The event also aimed at motivating girls to follow up training sessions in various related fields, and sharing success stories that will inspire their careers. The event also offered a platform for interaction with CISCO experts, the worldwide leader in IT, so as to learn more about innovative developments, and sought to support outstanding talents so as to bring about drastic social and economic changes in community. In the same vein, the Tripoli Chamber ran another workshop entitled, ‘Girls Power Tech’ which included a lecture by Dr. Roula Naja and presentations of various IT projects designed by women students of different universities (notably, Al Manar- Al Islah- the Lebanese French University for Applied Sciences), scientific institutes (Tamkeen Vocational Institute), Al Fayhaa schools (Rawda Al Fayhaa High School) and CCIA business incubator. (Al Diyar, May 17, 2016)