Coding Girls launches an international campaign on gender equality with female managers in the IT Directors’ Club. The first role model will be Cinthia Bianconi, President of the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti and CDTI board member. The live event will be held next Tuesday, February 16 at 4:30 pm. The event will be streamed live on the Facebook Page and YouTube Channel of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
"MY FUTURE? IT’S UP TO ME!"
International Campaign for Women, 7th edition of Coding Girls
1st live role modelling event | Feb. 16, 2021 – 3 pm
While the seventh edition of Coding Girls takes off, the new generations have been hit by yet another emergency. We are referring to the "Shecession," a recession that is affecting women during the pandemic. In the last twelve months, 444,000 people have lost their jobs: 312,000 women and 132,000 men. In December, there were 101,000 jobs were lost, 99,000 were of women (ISTAT data).
The challenge to give a new future to young women is faced head on by the Coding Girls “hybrid” collaborative alliance, guided by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and promoted by the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Microsoft, ENI and a network of 32 academic partners. The national alliance, always open to public and private partners who share its values and objectives, welcomes the contribution of the women in the IT Directors’ Club (CDTI) guided by Deputy President Maria Pia Giovannini.
The female professionals at CDTI will hold role modelling sessions for high school and university students participating in Project Coding Girls in order to raise their awareness on the importance of their contribution to economic growth and sustainability. The first role model will be Cinthia Bianconi, President of the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti and newly elected CDTI board member. The first video will also feature Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and CDTI Deputy President Maria Pia Giovannini. The role modelling sessions follow an original narrative format that involves women of all ages in the first intergenerational campaign promoting the full participation of women in the development of the country. Upcoming sessions will also include students. The slogan is "My Future? It’s Up to Me!" with hashtag #dipendedame.
Cinthia Bianconi was born in Brussels. She now lives and work as a lawyer in Rome. Since 2016, she had directed the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, one of Italy’s longest standing non-banking foundations. The Fondazione Adrian Olivetti is an independent agency that develops and coordinates projects addressing the conditions necessary for social progress. Thanks to two new councillors, Cinthia Bianconi and Mirta Michilli, the female presence on the CDTI advisory board is now 30%.
Thanks to an educational alliance uniting 100 second-degree secondary school classes and 32 academic partners, Programme Coding Girls will reach 15,000 in 24 cities in all regions throughout the school year. Coding Girls is not just about coding practice and competitions amongst schools, the programme also includes orientation sessions with university tutors and motivational meetings with role models to promote gender equality in science and technology sectors and drive the participation of young women on the labour market.
