2. Creating employment opportunities for rural women in the information, communication and technology sector in Costa Rica
Economic empowerment

4. Costa Rica, a Central America country

5. ICT is a dynamic sector with economic opportunities
High Employment Opportunities
Good Salaries
Incentives from Public Programs
Scholarship
Multinational enterprises have big offices (Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft)
Very dynamic Costa Rican digital business
Women have a very low participation in this sector of opportunities

6. 80/20 Men/women ICT is a sector of economic opportunities Women at
Represents 32% Costa Rica exports,
It is growing 9% each year
Has created employments
Requires: employment per year But just graduates 1000 tech per year.
80/20
Men/women
Women at
lower
positions in the
ICT value-chain
Google accepts problems with
its workforce diversity and proposes changes.
They have 80% amen and 61% white people.
May, 29, 2014

7. ICT development concentration
Opportunities concentrated in:
Men
Urban
White

8. Mobile is the most important ICT tool in rural communities
Women are the most important mobile consumer

9. ICT development concentration
TIC-as
ICT development concentration
A model to develop an ICT cluster with young women leadership

10. More rural women in the highest part of the ICT value chain
Women as software developers
Women as ICT decision makers
Women as CEO
More rural women in the highest part of the ICT value chain
Women as ICT project managers
Women with their own ICT enterprise
Women as software designer

11. Women drop points Pregnancy and childcare College Graduation
6th school grade
High School: career selection
1st level computer career
College Graduation
Pregnancy and childcare
Women drop points

12. Children
Adolescents
Young women
Professional women

13. Model in progress Public, private and university policies Girls
Art and experimentation: Reducing stereotypes in girls-tech relationship
Girls leadership in ICT teams
Girls and ICT clubs in libraries
High Schools Campaign: to inform and to develop interest for ICT at high schools
Tech-Coffee: Strengthening leadership, technical skills and entrepreneurship
Mentorship: Women in ICT
Ideation and teams: Hackaton and competition
Coaching: women start up
Changing public programs (finance, capacity building, support)
Creating gender equity conditions in universities
Creating gender equity conditions in enterprises
Girl to girl/women to women: women networking
Model in progress
Public, private and university policies
Girls
Strategy: holistic approach
Action-Research-M&E
ICT women networks
Creating technology
Women leadership
Strengthening leadership, technical capacity and entrepreneurship
Partnership
Students
Young women

14. ICT National Chamber
Science and Technology Ministry
Education
Ministry
Network of volunteers mentors
Other nacional
Universities
ICT companies
Local universities
Local ICT
companies
Local Government
Local ICT chamber
Young women and girls NZ
Local economy networks
Institute for women
Local schools and high schools
ZEE

15. 2 permanent “girls and technology clubs” in library and universities
Leaded by college students
2 years with art and experiments
100 children (girls and boys)
Girls leadership
10 rural schools

16. Mentoring
Exhibitions in public spaces with other ICT enterprises
Coding together
Knowledge Sharing
Developing new skills

17. Network of 70

20. Private sector Need for more tech women
Diversity is key
More demand than supply of technical staff
Important programs to encourage women in ICT
Need for more tech women

21. Academic sector
Women low interest in ICT career
Dropout in the first year
Women doing technical level don´t continue at university level
¿Why women don´t want to do ICT career even if it is a field of opportunities?

22. Public sector
A topic rarely analyzed
Low priority in public policy
Without public policies the change is very difficult
Need to connect science and technology with gender to improve public policy

23. Civil Society Who builds technology and how?
Concern about women involvement in ICT economic sector starts
Few connection between women movements and S&T movements
Who builds technology and how?