 We're out here taking photos for our photo blog. It's all part of Girls in ICT Day. Let's see what's going on over there. We took a couple pictures in front of the United Nations with they took pictures holding holding hands and only the hands and I'm trying to show the empowerment of women and girls. We took a photo in front of the United Nations of two hands that hold like this to symbolize a little that the future is in our hands. The International Telecommunication Union has busted girls from the Geneva area for a day of ICT workshops on digital music, coding, photoblogging and mobile apps. Because there's not a lot of role models out there and the perceptions are that it's a dominantly male field. So what we're trying to do with Girls in ICT Day is to change perceptions. And it's about explaining to girls that this is the future, that they can use technology to make the world a better place. The really hard part is having the perseverance and drive to really start a project and end a project. But first an inspiring tale of tech success. I'm here with Sylvia Todd and she's showed me her watercolor butt. Can you tell us more about it? Yeah, sure. So the watercolor butt is a watercolor painting robot that uses X and Y coordinates to paint a picture. So what inspired you to make this? So really I was just bored and I wanted to do something for this international competition called Robo Games and I've been there many times before and I was just wanting to do something. We tend to put a lot of focus on the technology and not the information and communication, but for these girls I want to give them a chance to create and communicate online, so I'm just giving them some digital skills to put these stories together to take their photos and to tell their own story here. The internet can be a great place to play and learn, but it's not without its hazards. The girls have been learning among other things how to serve safely and protect their privacy. So why is the IT holding this event? Well at the moment only nine out of a hundred app developers are women, and the number of women graduating in computer science is actually falling. The IT's aim is to give things a bit of a nudge the other way. So what's to be done? We have to start from earlier, we have to start from the early school years when there's a window that's decisive for girls and boys to understand that there's no difference when it comes to gender as to where each will go. As you progress up the tree the number of women tend to filter out and so it tends to thin out and perhaps more can be done to encourage women to progress a lot further. I think we need to bring more of a cool factor into technology when it comes to girls and being able to envisage and project themselves into the future, while this could be me in maybe 15 years time. After a day crowned with workshops and exercises let's hope that the girls leave not only having made new friends, but also inspired to embrace a carrier in technologies and science.