American Tower's Team Celebrates Girls in ICT Across the Globe to Promote Gender Equity

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The leaders at American Tower believe that gender equity elevates all of us. To support the UN’s International Telecommunication Union’s initiative and encourage girls to pursue a future in information and communication technologies (ICT), we partnered with different organizations around the world to support local initiatives.

Colleagues from ATC Latin America collaborated with a myriad of local organizations that focus on providing opportunities and tools to girls and young women to take the first steps in learning about programming.

In Woburn, Massachusetts, girls from the Boys & Girls Club of Woburn toured a tower, watched a drone demonstration, and talked to women about working in telecommunications.

At ATC Asia-Pacific, our colleagues hosted interactive mentoring between women employees and young girls of our Digital Communities.

ATC Ghana partnered with the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization on a month-long mentorship program for schoolgirls across the country and held a virtual hackathon for girls across four regions.

And in Boston, Massachusetts, women colleagues joined girls attending the UP Academy Dorchester to do hands-on STEM activities and discuss job opportunities in ICT.

American Tower is proud to be a part of the celebrations, mentorships, and partnerships that are taking place in over 170 countries to support girls and young women. Happy hashtag#IGICT Day! hashtag#GirlsinICT hashtag#GenderEquity

Communities

• Women

Formats

• Hackathon & Ideathon
• Workshops
• Internal Event
• Offsite Event
• Virtual Event
• Panels
• Speaker Presentation

Goals

• Grow