Una sfida Osint alla Palestra dell'Innovazione in occasione di due Giornate internazionali
In career and study choices, a significant gender gap persists: while 37% of men (25-34 years old) have a Stem degree, the share drops to 16.8% for women. Furthermore, the female employment rate in ‘science and mathematics’ is 6.3 percentage points lower than the male rate (80.1% and 86.4% respectively) and for ‘computer science, engineering and architecture’ the difference is over 9 points. Orienting young people to technical-scientific paths, with a special focus on girls, and stimulating them to a conscious attitude in the use of the web are the two objectives of the Open Source Intelligence Challenge scheduled to take place tomorrow at the Palestra dell'Innovazione in Rome (Via del Quadraro 102)
We are thus enhancing two important anniversaries: the day dedicated to safety on the Internet, Safer Internet Day, and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The initiative is part of Coding Girls, the project that for eleven years has been supporting young female students in choosing study paths and careers in Stem, with the support of an educational group led by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale ETS, with the patronage of the US Diplomatic Mission in Italy and the active collaboration of Microsoft, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, ING Italia, Fondazione Vodafone and Roboteco Italargon, together with schools, families, universities, companies and public and private organisations. More recently, with the Breaking Barriers project, the partnership was enriched with the support of Google.org.
The Città Educativa laboratories, in Via del Quadraro 102 in Rome, welcome 56 students (30 girls and 26 boys) for a training event on the skills and abilities to assess computer risks and the vulnerabilities of their own devices, inviting young people to discuss the issues of privacy and data security. They were the high schools Emanuela Loi in Nettuno, Leopoldo Pirelli and Giorgi-Woolf in Rome. After the training session, divided into teams, the students engage in a challenge based on Open Source Intelligence (Osint) activities to learn to reflect on the importance of responsibly and consciously guarding the information they share online. The young 007s of the web set out to research, collect and analyse data and news to obtain information based on the theme of the proposed challenge.
The appointment thus concludes the initiatives of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale for the second National Week of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. On 4, 6 and 10 February, there will be several Coding Girls appointments in Turin, at Liceo Cattaneo, IIS Amedeo Avogadro and IC Manzoni. The trainings will focus on the critical use of generative artificial intelligence applications and programming with coding to tell the 2030 Agenda. On 6 February, students at the IIS Oriani-Mazzini in Milan are called upon to learn about the main platforms for developing websites and blogs to create a digital product (Mind The Gap project), while in Naples on 7 February, the young pupils of the IC Barbato Marino Santa Rosa in Naples will have their first experience of coding and robotics as part of the Fatti grande pathway.
To highlight the role of girls and women in Stem disciplines, from 4 to 11 February our website shares a ‘success story’ every day featuring girls and women who are not afraid of technology.
