 The tech industry has innovated every industry across the world. However, global trends of today have led to a shortage of junior software developers in the ICT sector and across all industries. Universities are not graduating enough computer science students and employers complain that graduates do not have enough job-ready skills. Women are also underrepresented in economic sectors requiring ICT skills. Even in the face of a global youth unemployment crisis, jobs for women and men with coding skills are going unfilled. This presents an opportunity to prepare young men and women for these jobs. ITU is a specialized UN agency for ICT. The work of the ITU development sector includes ICT skills for youth employment. ITU has conducted research on the effectiveness of coding boot camps as a means to bridge this employment gap. Coding boot camps provide rapid-skill development training and job placement services. Coding boot camps exist in the growing number of countries around the world, graduating women and men from technical and non-technical backgrounds. Even more coding boot camps are needed to fill available jobs. ITU has developed a training program taught by successful coding boot camps to support its members to launch their own boot camps. The curriculum includes how to teach coding boot camp style and how to build ties with industry to ensure graduate success. The boot camp approach is a way for the government to produce industry-ready people. ITU also provides resources and networking platforms. Courses can be tailored for universities, tech entrepreneurs and government players. The boot camp approach is a promising strategy to prepare students for the real world of work as junior developers. Boot camps maintain close ties to industry. They tailor their curriculum to industry needs and provide job placement services for their graduates. The method of teaching focuses on project work designed for client needs, building portfolios and pair programming. The emphasis is focused on preparing students for the real world by diving straight into practical application. ITU can support you to launch your own coding boot camp to increase the number of job-ready junior software developers, increase job placement rates, address the skills mismatch, and increase the number of women working in ICT. To learn more, read our reports and resource page. Get involved by contacting us or attending ITU's courses in your region.