#eSkills4Girls: how to integrate digital literacy in national education systems

Under Germany's G20 presidency in 2017, the initiative #eSkills4Girls was launched to improve digital skills and employment perspectives for girls and women in particular in low income and developing countries. The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) organised a workshop to address questions related to the integration of digital literacy in education systems with a special focus on girls and young women. The aim of the workshop was to stimulate a dialogue that includes different perspectives from academia, policy makers, private sector, non-governmental and international organisations to identify challenges, but also promising approaches and find out what works. As a product of this effort, presenting experts at the workshop have contributed to this documentation to bring forth the challenges, considerations, questions, and recommendations. Even though the following contributions are independent from each other, they also have certain observations and recommendations in common, such as the impact of gender stereotypes, the important role of parents, teachers and female role models and the necessity for a gender-sensitive curriculum to facilitate digital skills acquisition for girls and young women. This report covers: The role of teachers and educators; Gender-sensitivity in curricula; Factors influencing young women's career pathways in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and Strategic partnerships with the private sector.

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