Since 2019, SmartGirlz in ICT has equipped secondary school girls with Human-Centered Design, coding and entrepreneurship skills to close the ICT gender gap.
Address the underrepresentation of women in Tanzania's ICT workforce by encouraging more girls to study and work in the sector.
Inspire girls to pursue ICT studies and careers by dispelling the myths and stereotypes that discourage them.
Equip participants with practical skills in Human-Centered Design, product development, and coding.
Build business development skills so girls can turn their own ideas into real products.
Every edition equips girls with three core skill areas — design thinking, technical building, and the business sense to turn ideas into real products.
Empathy, ideation, prototyping and pitching — the foundation of every SmartGirlz cohort.
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Business skills and career awareness to help girls pitch and grow their own ideas.
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Hosted at UDSM's College of ICT, SmartGirlz in ICT grew out of a 2017 Girls in ICT Day celebration into a full capacity-building programme for secondary school girls (12–18) across Dar es Salaam. It addresses the shortage of girls studying ICT — despite significant job opportunities in the market — through hands-on Human-Centered Design, coding, and business skills training.
See 2024 HighlightsEvery year runs in three phases: HCD training with in-school exhibitions and competitions (Feb–Apr), business and entrepreneurship training with career awareness (Jul), and coding to turn winning ideas into working MVPs (Dec).
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