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It is also essential to provide a further impulse to female talent in the IT industry and , of course , in the digital world .
Beatriz Perdomo , Marketing Director for Latin America , Adobe , and Co-Founder at Girls4Coder
Female talent key to closing gaps in the digital age
Beatriz Perdomo , Marketing Director for Latin America , Adobe , and Co-Founder at Girls4Coder , suggests three steps to boost female talent in IT and STEM .
We talk so much about the digital talent gap and the high demand for technology positions in both large companies that have been operating in the market for years as well as start-ups . Engineers have always been necessary for companies , but their importance is even more vital with the growth and adoption of innovative technologies . Having a strong and trained IT team is a challenge many companies face .
According to figures from the Colombian Ministry of ICT , currently , 274,386 people are part of the Information Technology and communications sector , of which only 43.4 % are women , while 56.6 % are men .
Surprisingly , the country has found just a handful of the more than 30,000 developers , programmers and coders needed . And the trend may increase to the point that , by 2025 , it would require more than 200,000 . In terms of work , imagine the possibilities for the future of children and young people . They will have a more sophisticated education in a few years due to academic programs that include computational thinking and programming languages , including Java , Python , PHP , SQL and others .
That is not the end . It is also essential to provide a further impulse to female talent in the IT industry and , of course , in the digital world . At Girls4Code , an
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