Since September 2015, BdOSN has been running several programmes to create awareness among the girls and women to take ICT as a career. The initial goal is to aware the girls and women about the different opportunities in the field of ICT and help them to acquire the required skills through training and workshop.

Some results have been achieved soon from those actions.  In 2015, when we start our initiative, there were only 5 girls teams participated in the ICPC Regional Programming Contest in Bangladesh although 25% of the students in 90 institute which offered ICT courses are female! After one year, in 2016 the number of team raise to 129!

International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April. However, BdOSN celebrates this for a month.

In continuation of the effort, BdOSN has taken the following initiatives to celebrate International Girls in ICT.

The programme includes but not limited to

0 Awareness Building

0 Career Talk 

0 Innovation Boot Camp

0 Open House Day, etc

Open House Day is an event under Girls In ICT where girls are packed to visit IT service company, software development company, call center, development etc to make young women more interested in ICT. On 4th April 2017, we visited BRAC Net Limited. There were 12 girls and young women participating the event. Dr. Md Akramul Islam the director of BRAC Net limited was present there. He talked about the importance of ICT and how girls can do ICT jobs. There were a lot of female workers on BRAC Net. All the season was taken by those female workers.

Tahmina Kabir who participated the event said that "I'm not a student of any ICT related subject. Now I know even I can do a job in ICT sector. I really enjoyed here."