The Tech Age Girls project provides ICT, leadership, and professional skills training to young female leaders in high schools in the Philippines. It aims to address the underrepresentation of women in IT and develop the skills of 30 selected students through a training bootcamp. The students then implement community projects using their new skills. The Philippine Community eCenter Network implements the program with support from IREX and the US State Department to promote expanded roles for women in their communities and careers.

1. Tech Age
Girls
Philippines
Implemented by
The Philippine Community eCenter
Network, Inc.
In partnership with
IREX & the US State Department

2. What is Tech Age Girls?
 An innovative project that encourages and
develops skills of young female leaders in
high schools by providing them with ICT,
leadership and professional skills
training
 Addresses the underrepresentation of
women in the IT field
 Implemented in 6 countries including
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova
 Spearheaded by IREX; implemented in the
Philippines by PhilCeCNet

3. Project Goals
 Provide training, support, and
encouragement to a competitively selected
cadre of socially active young women,
ultimately promoting an expanded role for
women in their communities and in the ICT
field
 Facilitate the contribution of young women’s
voices to public discussion on critical issues
and increase the level of online local
language content from girls’ perspectives

4. Project Phases
Selection Training and Community
exposure work
• 30 top female • One week of soft • Students return
high school skills and to their
students from hardware and communities to
different regions online training implement local
and projects projects
• Talks from • OJT at respective
women leaders CeCs; training
• Mini-internships their peers in key
in IT industries IT skills

5. TAG results from other
countries
350
Over 1000 300 blogs and
community
girls websites
service
developed IT about local
projects
and women
implemented
leadership leaders
by TAGs and
skills published
classmates

6. TAG Philippines
 PhilCeCNet has been implementing this project
since 2011
 More than 300 high school girls have been
identified and trained under the 1st phase, with
help from our Community eCenters (CeCs) in
Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao
 30 of the best high school girls are selected to
come to Manila for the First Tech Age Girls
Bootcamp (Jan. 20-30, 2013)
 The girls will develop community projects and
work with their respective CeCs to implement
them in their communities
 Girls will serve as role models and will train
other members in their communities in ICTs

7. Next Steps
 PhilCeCNet to adopt TAG as one of its key
programs for the next 4 years
 TAG to be one of the programs under
PhilCeCNet’s “iPinay Movement”, which will
empower women and girls as driving forces of
ICT-enabled development
 This initiative will actively promote and support
increased participation of women and girls in
the ICT field.
 We plan to hold annual TAG Bootcamps during
the summer and semestral breaks
 We plan to involve more CeCs and schools in
identifying, training and assisting girls in their
community projects

8. How you can help:
 Sponsor our Tech Age Bootcamps!
 Help us by funding the training expenses and logistics.
Provide them space to learn and grow. Be a corporate
sponsor in this unique ICT program for young women
leaders!
 Adopt a Tech Age Girl!
 You can sponsor their travel to and from the
Bootcamp. You can take them in as an intern.
 Let them train with you!
 Let your company or organization be the venue for
their exposure to ICTs and community development.
 Inspire the next generation of Women ICT
leaders!
 Share your experiences. Be a trainer. Encourage
young girls to do their best and realize their full
potential!

9. Contact us:
Philippine Community eCenter Network, Inc.
 Dr. Angelo Juan O. Ramos, Chair
ajoramos@gmail.com
 Jeannine Teves, Network Coordinator
jeannine.teves@gmail.com