270 students at the Celebration of Girls Day in Belgrade, 28. April, 2011.

State Secretary for Digital Agenda, Jasna Matić, welcomed 270 girls from all parts of Serbia, at the manifestation regarding the celebration of the International Girls in ICT Day.

Right upon their arrival to Belgrade, the girls had the opportunity to talk to Jasna Matić and successful women from the ICT field, and to gain a better insight into their work through their experiences. The girls also met the students and professors from the technical faculties, who introduced them with the opportunities for studying and education within ICT field.

GIRLS DAY IN REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA, 28. April, 2011.

Gender Center of the Government of the Republic of Srpska, in cooperation with the Agency for Information Society of the Republic of Srpska, is organizing the celebration of „April 28 – International Girls in ICT Day“, in the period from April 25 – 29, 2011. For this week, the Gender Center and the Agency have planned numerous activities: organizing of visits for the children and youth to the leading public and private enterprises, and to the state and private faculties from the field of Information-Communications Technologies (ICT), as well as the workshops and lectures for youth, with a view of promoting the gender equality in ICT field, and greater involvement of girls in this field (the lectors are women professionals who work in this field), media promotion of this Day and making of posters for the promotion of this Day.

ITU SUPPORTS THE INTERNATIONAL GIRLS IN ICT DAY, 28. April, 2011.

ITU supports establishing of the International Girls in ICT Day, which will be celebrated on each fourth Thursday in April, this year for the first time. In October 2010, at the proposal of the Republic of Serbia at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, the Amendments were adopted to the Resolution 70, which deals with gender equality issues; this enabled establishing of the Global Network of Women ICT Decision-Makers (www.witnet.org), as well as the celebration of the International Girls in ICT Day, on each fourth Thursday in April.