It is impossible to empower women without using modern communication technologies

Communication and information technology is the main driver for the utility of tools, practices, economics, culture, politics and many other social components.

Therefore, it cannot be ignored in empowering human beings, especially women, as 50% of the active members of communities.

Nowadays, in the process of transiting from traditional practices to the trend of adopting modern communication technologies, it can be argued that more companies and service providers are aware of the effective role of technologies in providing their services, and also the easier access of the applicants to their services.

The first step in designing products based on new technologies is to promote the capabilities and potentials of human resources. Therefore, it is vital to provide society  with the necessary platform.

If we want our society to evolve, we must equip women, like men, with a variety of communication tools, and put aside any kind of gender discrimination.

Fortunately, internet and the virtual world have closed the path to any gender barriers, in a way that, what is important for many organizations and corporations these days is to be able to have innovative and creative  employees  ( men and women) which seems impossible without benefiting from new technologies.

Therefore, we, the executives and the authorities, must understand this issue in seeking to provide facilities and conditions for the women to access modern technologies including ICT.

Fortunately, today, with the help of women`s  benefiting from modern technologies and the rise of their digital literacy, they are more likely to face a variety of risks and threats, including physical and mental illnesses, social hazards as well as jab opportunities, health promotion and career success.

During the recent years, in the national post Company with a view to equality of women and men employees, and emphasize on strengthening their skills in the field of communication and information technology, network and information security in the organization, the concept and generalities of the e-government, management of tools and organizational information and skills of working with computers, were designed and implemented in the same way for female and male employees in from of training courses.

In addition, last year, the women`s empowerment training course aimed to create more opportunities for this group of employees for jobs and management positions, and in the past two years they have some achievements in this regard.

In such positions, women, now, have a representative among the members of the board as well as having several general managerial posts in the company.

This article has been published by the Deputy Minister of Communications Hossein Nemati in www.womenict.ir.