Kabul University sets up new innovation centre for women
The Afghan government has laid the foundation for a new technical and innovation centre for women and girls at Kabul University under the leadership of Roya Mahboob, head of the Afghanistan all-female robotics team.
The new centre dubbed ‘Roya Pardazan’ or Dreamer Centre aims to provide technical and vocational training for girls in all four zones of the war-ravaged country, hoping to rebrand Afghanistan as a hub of technical excellence.
Mahboob, an Afghan IT entrepreneur, heads the non-profit Digital Citizen Fund based in Herat, which teaches girls coding and IT skills. More than 3,000 girls in Herat have studied at the Digital Citizen Fund, and the city’s university now has its largest number of women computer scientists.