As you may know, August is Women’s Month in South Africa, with a number of organisations highlighting the steps they are taking in order to address equality in the workplace and opening up more opportunities for women. In the case of Huawei South Africa, it has digital skills training programme, Women4Tech.

The free online course is open to “savvy, tech-forward women entrepreneurs,” and aims to advance skills development and help them grow, improve and digitise their businesses using technology.

The training is comprised of three courses – Cloud Computing and how it benefits SMMEs; Digital marketing for business success; and an introduction to app development followed by a networking opportunity with developers and other successful women entrepreneurs.

“This Women’s Month we are proud to launch this unique campaign, to make women fundamentally more competitive in the digital economy. Women entrepreneurs and women owned micro businesses traditionally play a critical role in South African society and by extension the economy. Our Women4Tech programme is designed to support these businesses through ICT knowledge sharing, facilitating digital transformation and business growth,” explains Vanashree Govender: Media & Communications manager at Huawei South Africa.

“Cloud is where the world is moving to, but the challenge for micro enterprises is that costs for adoption and capability is often lacking. We have solutions like leveraging cloud in a pay as you go use model, that can help micro enterprises access services like, online accounting systems, targeted social media marketing and even compliance with regulations like protection of personal information or POPI. These solutions are ideal for micro enterprises to use tech to take their businesses to the next level,” adds Stone He, president, Huawei Cloud Southern Africa.

The training dates and times this month are as follows:

• Introduction to Cloud Computing: 16th to 18th August from 10:00-12:00
• Digital Marketing: 24th August from 09:00-15:00
• Introduction to Mobile App Development & Networking Session: 25th August from 10:00-14:00.

Women entrepreneurs interested in applying need to fill in a short application form here and if selected to join the programme, will be contacted by Huawei.