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Flow Trinidad marked In­ter­na­tion­al Girls in ICT Day 2025 by par­tic­i­pat­ing in a se­ries of out­reach ini­tia­tives aimed at in­creas­ing aware­ness of op­por­tu­ni­ties in the In­for­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Tech­nol­o­gy (ICT) sec­tor. The an­nu­al ob­ser­vance held glob­al­ly on April 24, car­ried the theme “Girls in ICT for In­clu­sive Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion.”

Si­mone Mar­tin-Sul­gan, Vice Pres­i­dent and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Flow Trinidad, stat­ed that sup­port­ing the de­vel­op­ment of young women in ICT con­tributes to the avail­abil­i­ty of skilled pro­fes­sion­als in the field.“Em­pow­er­ing girls and young women in ICT is not op­tion­al; it’s a ne­ces­si­ty for a thriv­ing and in­clu­sive dig­i­tal fu­ture,” she said. “As a large tech­nol­o­gy-based com­pa­ny, we al­so de­pend on hav­ing a strong cadre of high­ly trained ICT tal­ent avail­able to us as we work to ex­pand our dig­i­tal agen­da and pi­lot in­no­va­tions that will dri­ve the re­gion for­ward.”

Mar­tin-Sul­gan al­so ad­dressed the theme of the 2025 ob­ser­vance, stat­ing that it high­lights the need for in­clu­siv­i­ty in pol­i­cy and in­fra­struc­ture de­vel­op­ment re­lat­ed to dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy.“ Rep­re­sen­ta­tion and con­tri­bu­tions from all back­grounds and per­spec­tives, in­clud­ing our women, is key, and it starts by in­spir­ing young minds to em­brace their roles as lead­ers in ICT,” she added.