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.

The aim of all this activities is the promotion of gender equality and empowering of women and girls through using of ICT, in order to increase their interest for using of ICT, and to make them interested in a professional career in this sector. During the course of education, girls show visibly better results in Mathematics and Informatics, and global researches are also showing that, regardless the fact that girls have the talent for technical vocations, as well as the interest for the professions in this field, they rather choose other professions due to the pressure of the predominating social stereotypes.

On this day, the institutions, sectors, establishments and companies from the ICT field, as well as the universities, research centers and societies within the ICT field, will organize the Open Doors Day for women and girls, in order to promote using of ICT for the purposes of economical and social empowering of women and girls.