© 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Creating Opportunities for Women in Developing...

© 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Creating Opportunities for Women in Developing Countries:

Cisco Systems and Partners join together to develop gender sensitive ICT Training

E. Erin WalshNovember 1, 2001


Internet & Education

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John ChambersJohn Chambers

CEO – Cisco SystemsCEO – Cisco Systems


Cisco Networking Academy Program History

Launched in October 1997

64 Academies; 7 states in U.S.

Created as solution for schools

Schools becoming wired

Lacked financial and human resources to manage networks

Academy students design, maintain, and troubleshoot school networks


Cisco Networking Academy Program: Curriculum, Assessment, Training, and Accountability


Web-Based Curriculum


Online Assessment


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Program Hierarchy

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German Japanese

Portuguese Spanish

Hungarian Standard French

Global Translations


Cisco Networking Academy Program“Largest E-Learning Laboratory”

227,790* StudentsCurrently Enrolled

25,000 Online Tests Daily6,115,703+ Total Tests Taken

8,384 Academies,133 Countries

23,881 Instructors

*Statistic as of October 18, 2001


October 25, 2001 Statistics

• Number of Academies: 8,384

• Number of enrolled students: 227,790

• Number of countries: 133/ number of empowerment zones: 28

• Number of Academy graduates (completed semester 4): 49,190

• Number of Academy Instructors: 24,363


Empowering Women in ICT

• High demand for ICT skills creates opportunities for all individuals, regardless of gender, race, creed, etc.

• Targeted development interventions that provide women with access to IT skills and employment will allow them to contribute to the development of the IT sector in their countries.

• Cisco Management System allows for unprecedented program scalability and data collection of students across the globe.

• Gender focused projects and Academies


Gender Initiative:Cisco and Cisco Learning Institute

Mainstream Gender into all aspects of the Cisco Networking Academy Program

Gender Module being designed for instructors

Expert analysis of curriculum – to ensure that it is gender and culturally sensitive

Recruitment and retention strategies developed

Establish a critical mass of female role models, students and instructors

Creating a “Gender” web tool –

Best Practices

Data collection and analysis

Targeted Gender Projects across the globe

Building a gender eco-system of partners


Success through Partnerships


STRATEGIC PARTNERS

• UNDP

• USAID

• World Bank – INFODEV, BPD

• UNECA

• UNIFEM

• UNRWA

• OAS

• Academy for Educational Development


UNECA - World Bank/InfoDev - Cisco

•UNECA IT Center as Regional Academy in Addis Ababa

•InfoDev contribution: scholarship fund

•Cisco contribution: training, equipment and support

•50 women to attend Academy Program classes:1 Anglophone class, 1 Francophone class

•Training to include:

CCNA course, entrepreneurship, business management, marketing, gender and development

•Objective: create group of women leaders to play active role in Internet Economy of Africa


UNECA - World Bank/InfoDev - Cisco

• Current class has 27 women from 16 Anglophone countries

• Participating countries: Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia

• Next class to begin February 2002. Students to be selected from Francophone countries


UNECA Student Test Scores

• 27 female students currently enrolled

• Test results through chapter 9

• Overall class average is 87%

• Half of the students have an average score of 90% or above


Least Developed Countries Initiative

G-8 Summit in July 2000: Called for New Public and Private Sector Efforts to Bridge the Global Digital Divide

Cisco Is Delivering Its $3.5 Million Investment by Establishing Its Global Cisco Networking Academy Program

in Over Half the World’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Strategic Partners: United Nations Development ProgramUSAID’s Leland InitiativeUnited Nations Volunteers/UNITeS


Initiative Goals

• Provide students in LDCs access to same IT training as those in 96 other countries.

• Begin to develop human resource capacity to manage the new Internet infrastructure with trained, skilled workers.

• Quickly demonstrate the benefits of the program and the power of ICT applications for development.

• Enable businesses and governments to compete in the global Internet Economy.

• Create a community of learning: North/South and South/South.

• Document process


LDC—Results to Date

• Cisco Networking Academy Program established

28 LDCs and 6 non-LDCs

58 Academies

111 Instructors trained in Africa and Asia

1,000+ studentsenrolled as of 10/22/2001


LDC Initiative: Gender Strategies

• Reduced fees for female students

• All female classes

• Open house at the Academy, proactively invite women to participate. “Women encouraged to apply.”

• Work with NGOs to promote program and recruit women

• Collaboration with Gender Ministries

• Train female instructors to serve as role models


LDC Initiative: Gender Activities

• ASAFE in Cameroon: gender-focused Academy at women’s NGO, run by female Executive Director

• 31st December Women’s Movement in Ghana: gender-focused Academy at women’s NGO

• National University of Rwanda: all female class taught by female instructor

• University of Kinshasa: 2 all female classes

• UNECA All Female Classes: 1 Anglophone class began in 08/01; Francophone class to begin 02/02

• NEPAL: 1 all female class to begin 12/01

• CAMBODIA: Female instructor recruitment


E-quality Project in Jordan

• Presently in Jordanian Universities:

Women represent only 29.6% of students enrolled in computer science and 13.8% in computer engineering

• The number of women in ICT education decreases substantially from the undergraduate level to doctoral education

• Women’s enrollment in community college computer programs is increasing even as total enrollment is decreasing. This indicates strong demand for IT training.


E-quality Project in Jordan

• Cisco partnering with UNIFEM and the Govt. of Jordan

• Objectives:

Develop and disseminate an information base of the gender and ICT, market and policy environment

Establish gender-focused Networking Academies

Evaluate project results for expansion in Arab Region

Ensure women’s access to quality jobs and leadership positions in the ICT sector

• Project activities target:

Jordan ICT sector, secondary school students, community colleges, university students, NGOs, UN agencies as well as women in local communities and the general public.


Academy for Educational Development

• Working in 15 countries to conduct gender research, gather data and identify success stories:

Brazil, El Salvador, India, Jordan, Mexico, Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, UAE, Canada, Poland, UK, Rwanda and South Korea

• Partnering with CLI to design a Gender Module for integration into Cisco Instructor Training


IT for Sustainable Development

All I can say to all female IT enthusiasts is that there has never been a greater opportunity for females to do what they

really want. Cisco Networking Academy Program is one way to achieve those dreams. In any case, women have

never been barred from doing what men do. Weakness is just in the mind.

Remember: She who dares, wins.

Barbara Munyati

Cisco Networking Academy Program Instructor

University of Zambia

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’’Barbara Munyati

Cisco Networking Academy Program Instructor

University of Zambia

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