Empowering Woman in IT (eWIT) is a women’s forum based in Chennai, with a vision to be the preferred forum for interchange of ideas and for pioneering initiatives so as to unleash the potential of women and drive their growth in the IT/ITES industry.
eWIT Trivandrum is a local chapter of eWIT, launched at Technopark, Trivandrum in September of 2012. eWIT Trivandrum focuses on women in Trivandrum, Kerala who are part of the IT/ITES space.
"To be the preferred forum for interchange of ideas and for pioneering initiatives so as to unleash the potential of women and drive their growth in the IT/ITES industry"
→ Expand the women workforce at all management levels in the IT/ ITES industry
→ Enable women to tread the career path by equipping them with necessary skills
→ Facilitate women’s quest for a better work life balance in IT/ ITES Sector
To achieve the above objectives, our focus would be on the following activities
→ Promoting IT /ITES as a preferred career choice for women starting from the college level
→ Providing hands on training programmes to enhance soft / leadership skills to make them more effective and enable them to take on higher responsibilities
→ Provide mentoring / counseling services and Support groups
→ Take on relevant projects that would facilitate women to pursue their careers (eg. Expanding the network and day care centres, etc.)
→ Act as preferred voice of women in the IT/ITES industry to take up women-related issues with corporates and governments