 My name is Sarah Fiena and I'm a student here in Geneva, Switzerland, the home of the International Telecommunication Union. ITU is the United Nations agency that manages and promotes information and communication technologies, or ICTs in all no language. That means your mobile, tablet or even just a plain old telephone. I've come to ITU this morning because today is Girls on ICT Day. That's the day when ITU staff show girls from local schools how interesting a Korean technology can be. I want to see what it's all about and meet some of the participants to talk about their experiences. The first person I've found to talk about the day is Mr Hu Lin Zhao. He's the secretary general of the whole ITU. Mr Zhao, why did ITU start Girls on ICT Day and what do you want to achieve? As you know, ITU is a specialised agency of the United Nations that is responsible for ICT development in the world. Our mandate is connected people, connected world. ICT will offer tremendous potential to help our girls to develop themselves in their career. And we also found that girls have a lot of fantastic ideas to contribute to the ICT development in the world. Therefore, ITU would like to organise this special day to invite everybody to come together to celebrate ICT and Girls. We wish our girls a great day of this celebration. Thank you very much. I've tracked down Mr Senu. His unit leads the Girls on ICT Day each year. Mr Senu, this seems to be a very popular event. Why do you think so many girls get involved in Girls on ICT Day each year? This event is really inspiring. And we are gathering every year all the young girls to make sure that they make the difference in their life and the life of humanity through ICTs. We want the young girls and the women to become ICT creators instead of being just ICT consumers. Thank you very much, Mr Senu. My pleasure. Here at ICT today, you will get to see and experience ICTs first-hand in practical workshops, encoding mobile applications, satellites and robotics. In this workshop, Hanan from ITU is teaching the girls how to programme these very cool robots donated by Lego. Hanan, how hard is this and what can you get the robots to do? It was fantastic to see what the girls have achieved today. They are learning how to programme and they are experimenting with robots, programming with fun and it was really fantastic. Can you give us a demo? Yeah, of course. Let's demonstrate this first demonstration. We put an object here and the robot should detect this object and stop near it. Let's go. Thank you very much. May I talk to some of your students? Of course. Thank you. Can you tell us a bit about what you've been doing this morning? Basically, being programming and controlling the robot with this programme by Lego. Thank you. What about you? They've also been showing us different tactics and how we're in control of the robot but also how the sensor makes them also reply to us. Thank you very much. I thought I'd check out another of the workshops. Can you tell us a bit about what you've been up to so far? Hi, we are doing a workshop on data visualisation. We are from CERN. At CERN we have huge amounts of data and we have to visualise it and we have these tracks of particles that we generate billions of times a second. What I'm showing them is how we can generate those tracks and make dots where they pass by and connect the dots. We are letting girls actually programme and see the bowels of the visualisation engine, how that works and it seems like they are having fun. Is working with ICTs like what you expected? It's a lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be really boring and just open numbers but it's a lot more fun. And there's also this great speed mentoring activity where you get to hear from real-life tech role models about what it's like to welcome the ICT sector. It's time for the girls but for the Geneva diplomatic community it's time to hear a debate about some of the issues and about some of the success stories already out there. It seems to me that the reporting as a school subject in the future in 2016 would seem to be relatively wide area. Most of the technical skills are such. The debate has to happen between the generations. We've heard from several panelists that we need to impart skillsets from early ages and to go back to the company question or the entrepreneurship question many, many educational systems don't embed entrepreneurship and leadership in their teaching. Technology innovation is changing our world. It's at the heart of many of them hard problems that we have to change in the next 50 years. We want girls at the table creating technology or we encourage you to listen to learn, to do, to make things and consider to participate in this really important field. Acura Chex is a non-profit based in Nairobi, Kenya and our vision is to increase the number of women who use technology to create solutions. With that kind of definition our members include any woman who is interested in using technology and it does not limit to whatever career that she has chosen to have. I'm here with Gareth Baldworth from Lego Education. Gareth, Lego sponsored the equipment for one of the workshops today. Why do you think girls on ICT Day is important? Well, firstly at Lego Education we believe that it's really important that we enable every student to succeed and with this we include girls as well. In my job as someone who's talented students we meet are girls and if we can give lots of opportunities for girls especially in ICT then that will be a job well done for us. Thank you very much. It's been such fun spending the day surrounded by all this cool technology. Girls on ICT Day is a great way to spread the word about what a fantastic career you can have in ICTs.