In an effort to rev up the professional skills of women and boost their career opportunities, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) announced its second phase of training programme on mobile application development for women.
The programme, ‘Back-to-Work’, focussed on providing intensive training on various free software domains for women, who remain outside the workforce due to various reasons. It was conducted at the Training Centre of ICFOSS at Sports Hub, Kariavattom here from November 18.
ICFOSS is an autonomous institution under Kerala Government, mandated to promote free and independent software.
The Android-based programme is aimed at empowering a large number of talented and ambitious women, who have taken a break from their career for bringing up their children or remain outside the workforce owing to marriage, motherhood, local constraints and family commitments.
In the first batch, around 30 women were given training in ‘Software Testing’ in July. Since most of the participants have got placements in frontline companies, ICFOSS has decided to extend the training to other sectors.
For the past few years, ICFOSS has been conducting various woman empowerment programmes such as ‘Women Hackathon’ and ‘Winter School for Women’ to build confidence and help them contribute more for the development of technology.
