• Huawei South Africa kicked off its first in-person Women in Tech, Digital Skills Training Programme for 2024 yesterday.
• The company called for applications from young women interested in the technology industry last week.
• It will host a two-day training programme later this month in partnership with Henley Business School Africa.

Yesterday Huawei South Africa officially kicked off its 2024 Women in Tech, Digital Skills Training Programme.

Now in its third year, the 2024 iteration is notable as it is the first in-person version that the company has hosted, having previously leaned on videoconferencing technology to deliver training virtually.

“Huawei is excited to celebrate Women’s Month by offering this rewarding opportunity for women to use newly gained tech skills as a springboard for their participation in the digital economy,” noted Vanashree Govender (pictured below), Huawei South Africa’s senior Media and Communications manager.

She addressed a crowd of business and government leaders, as well as media professionals, while kicking off the Women in Tech Digital Skills Training Programme for 2024. Huawei South Africa also called for applications to its training last week, with it set to take place over two days later this month.

Govender added that the Women in Tech Programme, “will not only bridge the gap in the digital landscape but promote gender equity and give women a competitive edge in their industries and the broader job market.”

This year, the annual programme offers a cohort of 30 women entrepreneurs and government leaders an exclusive training experience in the rapidly developing fields of cloud computing, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI).

“The two-day training promises to help women take their careers to new heights as Henley Business School Africa joins as a new partner who will deliver fresh lessons in leadership development,” highlighted Huawei South Africa in a release shared with Hypertext.

“More than half the population are women, and the rest are men, but that’s not represented in our jobs and salaries. Women represent just 35% of the workforce in large tech companies. But when you look at what Huawei is doing with this programme, they enable women in this room to be activists for change in South Africa, so we get more women representation.” enthused Jon Foster-Pedley, dean of Henley Business School Africa.

Set to be ongoing fixture on the South African technology landscape, it will be interesting to see how Huawei SA’s Women in Tech Programme develops and evolves over the coming years.

Also keep an eye out for an upcoming episode of The Discourse (a Hypertext presents podcast), where we will be interviewing a few members of this year’s cohort to find out what they learned, as well as what their view of women in local tech space is really like.

To find out about this year’s training, as well as apply, click on the post embedded below.

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