Participation of women in ICT still low: experts

Women's participation in ICT is very low although the sector has immense potential for female employment, experts said on Saturday.

"This is the sector where women's participation needs to be increased and we need to start working from the school levels," said Samira Zuberi Himika, vice president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).

At the same time, women's participation should be increased at the policy-making level, their social conditions must be improved and gender discrimination in the workplace should be eliminated, she added.

For this, it is necessary to improve women's skills in information technology, she added.

She was speaking at a roundtable styled "Use of ICT in empowering women in today's world" organised by the BASIS Women's Forum at the trade body's office.