Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 7 July 2023, in Tashkent, as part of the Digital Leadership Forum, a round table "Women GAP in Tech" (Round table) was organized on the topic "Global experience of involving and supporting women in IT". The event was organized by the Ministry of Digital Technologies.

The round table was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Zulaikho Makhkamova, Advisor to the Minister of Digital Technologies Kamola Sobirova, Head of the Council of Advisors for the CIS countries of MasterCard Corporation (USA) Esin Unal Yilmaz, Israeli Ambassador to Uzbekistan Zeksavit Ben-Hillel, founder and executive director of Women In Tech Ayumi Moore Aoki (France), director of "EXADEL (USA) in Tashkent" Yulia Yakovleva, as well as online manager for government relations and public policy at Google (USA) Olga Skorokhodova.

The agenda of the summit discussed advanced foreign experiments to involve and support women in the IT field, as well as reforms and opportunities implemented by the state for women.

At the same time, the participants of the Women GAP in Tech round table were able to get acquainted with the work carried out in Uzbekistan to attract women to the IT sector, the experience of countries such as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Israel in supporting women, implemented projects in ensuring gender equality. equality and plans for the future.