The Unlocking Women and Technology (UWAT) group will be starting a project aimed at empowering women with technical and entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n
The project will \u00a0recruit and train interested women from diverse fields of professional practices.<\/p>\n
UWAT will be targeting ladies in age ranges 6 to 17 and 18 to 35. The candidates will be invited for an interview to assess and understand their passion for both technology and business.<\/p>\n
This will be followed by a selection the profiles most suitable for the project.<\/p>\n
UWAT has said its\u00a0project responds positively to the need of Ghanaian society as women will be trained to make use of technology to not only enhance their businesses and facilitate processes, but to build applications that will have impact society.<\/p>\n
For girls\u00a0in Primary and Secondary school level, learning to program computers is important as it increases their choice of career path, UWAT has said.<\/p>\n
The group believes that in this digital age, it is imperative that more women get involved in Mobile Application development by learning how to write and interprete code, work with different frameworks in order to become a trusted developer.<\/p>\n