Some of government’s most promising solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic have come from young women in ICT, but these young women need to be upskilled in order for government to retain their expertise.

This is according to Dr Denisha Jairam-Owthar, CIO: Metro Services at the City of Johannesburg. Jairam-Owthar was speaking as a panelist at the recent Public Sector ICT Forum under the theme ‘Women’s Empowerment Through Technology’. She said that although the City has an agenda in place to employ more women in ICT, the pace of implementation needs to be sped up.