Empowerment
The Himalayan Times
1
August 2014
Empowerment
The word “Empowerment” used to be the
development jargon of I/NGO and other development organizations in their
working documents, However, empowering women “digitally” must have been a catchy
word for the women activists as reported in “Empowering her digitally” (THT, 28
July, Page 14).
The two week long training program focusing
on increasing the knowledge and skills of young women participants in using
computers and internet was organized by Code of Nepal, a US based initiative
working to increase open data and digital skills in Nepal especially for women.
The training must be extremely fruitful and
productive to digitally empower the young women participants in terms of its
importance in the 21st century requirement. This sort of training
should be organized on a wider scale so that more young women can be trained to
face challenges such as gender-based violence.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Kathmandu
