16.03.2019 Ankara
The trainings for the Women Writing the Future Project started simultaneously on March 16, 2019, in 24 provinces between 10:00 – 17:00 with 1601 participants in 58 classes. TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said that the success of Women Writing the Future will destroy the perception that technology is an area belonging to men.
Launched
in cooperation by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB),
Turkcell and TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council under the auspices of and hosted
by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine Erdoğan, the Women Writing
the Future Project training was launched on March 16, 2019, between 10:00 and
17:00 in 24 provinces with 1601 participants in 58 classes simultaneously.
While
evaluating the project, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed out that
they are working with women in order to educate them on software and to increase
women's employment capacity and entrepreneurship. Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed out
that, as TOBB, they are cooperating with Turkcell and TOBB Women Entrepreneurs
Council. Emphasizing that TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council, Turkey's largest women's
organization, through great sacrifice, are supporting the project in their regions
of their members; “I wholeheartedly I thank our project partner Turkcell and all
the women entrepreneurs who are contributing to the success of this endeavor.”
- The project to destroy the
misconceptions
Pointing
to the fact that technology is perceived as a specific area for men all over
the world, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “The success of Women Writing the Future proves
how wrong this perception is. It is destroying misconceptions. We need to
increase the number of such projects to turn our population advantage into an
opportunity. To prosper, we must combine quantity with quality. Today, if you
know how to develop software, you can work in companies that will grow the
fastest in the future. You can establish such companies aside from work. The
greater the number of developers, the higher the chance that the billion dollar
start-ups will emerge.”
The
project consists of three stages: Training, project development and final
phase. Supported by in-class trainings conducted in the service buildings of
our Chambers and Commodity Exchanges in provinces, Turkcell instructors provide
face-to-face and online training while TOBB mentors support the
commercialization of ideas.
- In which provinces will training
take place?
In
order to increase the awareness of the project and increase the number of
applicants, TOBB Provincial Women Entrepreneurs Council Presidents and board
members make significant contributions to the project. The provinces where the
project will be implemented are: Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Elazığ,
Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul Anatolian and European sides, Izmir,
Kayseri, Kırklareli, Konya, Kütahya, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Ordu, Sakarya,
Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Tekirdağ, Trabzon.
The
project, which was implemented in order to increase female employment in
technology, garnered attention by winning an award at the Technology for Women
category at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and was shared with
participants from other countries as a good practice example at the United
Nations Women's Empowerment Principles meeting.