The First Lady, fabiola yanezstressed this Wednesday the need to “promote a greater participation of women in the technological transformation”during a meeting with the directors of the company Huawei within the framework of the “Seeds for the Future” program, aimed at promoting education in science, technology and communications in Argentina.
Yañez pointed out that “our young people are going to need new skills” and ratified his commitment to “encourage them to pursue careers that are perhaps less traditional, but that provide them with more and better tools and solutions to face the challenges of the real world, that open up new and encouraging job prospects, while fostering narrow the gender gap”.
According to estimates of the World Economic Forumabout 60% of children entering primary school today will work in jobs that do not yet exist, it was reported in a statement.
Construction of the digital society
The program “Seeds for the Future” is an initiative promoted by the Chinese company to “develop local talent, strengthen the transfer of knowledge and improve the use and understanding of people in the telecommunications industry”.
Since her assumption as honorary president of the Bank Nation Foundation (FBNA), Yañez accompanies the development of this initiative in the country, with the objective of “promoting that communities around the world participate in the construction of the digital society.”
Twenty-eight engineering students from universities across the country participated in the national edition, who received online training, workshops on key technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence, corporate leadership and Chinese culture.
In addition, the participants “had the opportunity to delve into the tools that technology provides to address social and/or environmental problems, through the project “Tech4Good”.
After its completion in October, the First Lady participated in the closing ceremony virtually and congratulated the students who benefited.
At the meeting, the Huawei board of directors and Fabiola Yañez also valued the actions that they jointly develop in favor of the gender equality and respect for women’s rights in order to reduce gaps.
“We have to promote a greater participation of women in the technological transformation,” said Yañez.
This program has been training more than 4,700 students worldwide, in more than 400 universities in 125 countries.
They were with the first lady, Austin Zhang, Huawei’s global director of Relations with Governments; Mitchell Zhang Mingqiang, CEO of Huawei Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay; and Weijun Huang, manager of the company’s Public Relations Department.
