ITU160 Gender Champions Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 6, 2025

Are you a younger girl doing impactful work associated to digital transformation and improvement? Apply now to change into an ITU160 Gender Champion and be part of a world motion for gender equality in digital transformation.

Through the ITU160 Gender Champions initiative on the event of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) a hundred and sixtieth Anniversary, the Government of Canada is partnering with ITU to carry 9 younger ladies (ages 18 – 25) working in digital improvement and digital transformation worldwide. This initiative will cowl their journey and lodging in Geneva, the place they are going to take part within the WSIS+20 High-Level Event, the AI for Good Global Summit, and ITU’s a hundred and sixtieth Anniversary commemorations from 7–11 July 2025.

As an ITU160 Gender Champion you’ll:

• Engage with key stakeholders within the digital and tech sectors;
• Amplify your work in digital improvement and digital transformation, by actively taking part in quite a lot of periods and actions;
• Co-design and facilitate together with your distinctive perspective, a workshop on selling gender equality in digital transformation. 

Eligibility

• Young ladies (ages 18 – 25) are invited to apply to be ITU160 Gender Champions. 
• Recognizing the intersectionality and the necessity for numerous voices in shaping our digital future, younger ladies from creating international locations, least developed international locations, landlocked creating international locations and small island improvement states, in addition to younger indigenous ladies, and younger ladies with disabilities, are significantly inspired to apply for this OPPORTUNITY.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications might be evaluated based mostly upon:

• The relevance of the applicant’s work to digital improvement
• The relevance of the applicant’s work to gender equality in digital transformation
• The impression and scalability of the applicant’s work
• The innovation of the applicant’s work
• The management and initiative displayed by the applicant

Application

Do not miss this chance to contribute to driving change in digital transformation! The application might be open till 6 April 2025 (11:59 pm CEST).

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to ITU160 Gender Champions.