On Thursday, the 8th of October 2009 Commissioner Vivane Reding welcomed the growing commitment by Europe's tech companies to attract more women to the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry.

Only six months after the European Commission launched a Code of Best Practices for Women in the ICT sector (IP/09/344) , the number of signatories committed to encourage young women to study and follow careers in the telecoms, technology and internet industries has grown from initially five to now 28:

 Signatories-2009.pdf

The Commission also launched today the European Directory for Women in ICT – a new innovative online tool that will bring together all information on activities and jobs in the EU related to women and ICT.

The Directory gathers in one place all news, activities, legislation, statistics and job offers related to women in ICT, to give an overview of what is happening in the field across Europe, and establish web-based collaboration between the different actors with the goal to develop new services.

The European Commission's Press Release:

 IP-09-1489_en.pdf

 The launch program

1.See the launch DVD on	ictwomendirectory
2. Introductory speech by Eva Fabry, Directory of the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT), ProjectManager of the EUD	EUD-Launch-Technology-Fabry.pdf
3. Presentation of Myriam Diocaretz	EUD-Launch-Community-Diocaretz.pdf
4. Presentation by Sasha Bezuhanova, Hewlett Packard, CEE Public Sector	EUD-Launch-Business-Bezohanova.pdf
4. EUD launch presentation slides	EUD-Launch-Brussel.pdf

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