Coding and AI jobs: How do we get more girls into tech?

Female tech pioneers from the UAE have described their desire to get more girls to learn about artificial intelligence and coding. They spoke in an online meeting of thought leaders, organised by the British Embassy UAE on Tuesday. Gamification and using the power of social media were two suggestions on how to encourage more young people to consider a career in tech. Emirati student, Fatima Ali Aldhuhoori, who was part of her school's prize-winning robotics team and Radhika Iyer, who studied in the UAE before moving to the UK and winning the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize for tech design, discussed how much they enjoyed using computer science to solve problems. Globally, these two women are outliers for their generation.