Women have been involved in Information technology since its roots and today we are blesses with hundreds of women in IT professional. In today's world where it is generally accepted that women are equipped woth equal qualities in educational and career prowess there is still a large gap to be filled when it comes to issues of gender imbalance and lack of exposure in this field. Women play a major role in the IT sector and so this conference is dedicated to acknowledge that factor and highlighting their achievements in the field.

Another aim is to identify those factors that may be playing a role in hindering women in IT sector.
Access to training is limited to women while admission for men in industry is high. Literacy of women is low. That is due to the double standards in society that have yet to allow them opportunities in pursuing careers in IT.

Moreover, lack of government support to women, which culminates in most of them being low skilled labour thus relying on dependent resources, is also a barrier for women in IT. Not forgetting Socio cultural, silent dissemination and suxual stereotyping at work.

Parents, Educators, Religion, the Media and Society at large need to address these factors to fully coprehend and utilize the potential women possess in IT and life as a whole.

Our main intention to conduct this conference is to see what prospects information technology has to offer women, especially for Africa.

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