Tsuda College and Japan Women's University have jointly established a consortium with Fujitsu, Asial, and Fujitsu Cloud Technologies to develop female human resources who will lead the information era by making full use of ICT (Information and Communication) technology. We started recruiting.
According to Fujitsu, this consortium is a "female university student ICT-driven social innovation consortium."We will provide female university students with programming education and development contests necessary for developing smartphone apps, internships with supporting companies, research locations, etc., and develop female human resources who will lead the new era.
The guidance will be led by Professor Noboru Sonehara of the Faculty of Policy Studies, Tsuda College, and Professor Haruhisa Hasegawa of the Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University.For the time being, it is planned that instructors from supporting companies will go to the university to give classes on smartphone application development.
In recent years, digital technology has rapidly developed and spread, and the need to acquire skills for utilizing ICT technology has increased.In 2020, programming education became compulsory in elementary schools, and in the future, learning opportunities for ICT technology are increasing in junior high schools and high schools.
However, according to the "Policy Evaluation Report on Promotion of Women's Advancement" compiled by the Administrative Evaluation Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2019, the ratio of women working in the information and telecommunications industry remains at about 2%, and there are still issues that have not been fully utilized. There is.
reference:[Fujitsu] Established "Women's University Student ICT Driven Social Innovation Consortium"
