Mirai Tech Innovation Hub

Happy Labor day! Today we reflect on this year’s International Girls in ICT Day, themed “AI for Development: Girls Shaping the Digital Future,” participants moved beyond theory into innovation by designing a simple web-based AI assistant addressing real community challenges in agriculture. Working in teams, the girls identified local farming needs such as pest management, crop timing, and market access and used guided prompts to build an AI tool capable of generating practical, locally relevant advice. In the process, they not only gained foundational skills in AI design and problem-solving but also applied key cybersecurity principles, including responsible data use, privacy awareness, and safe digital practices when handling user inputs. By the end of the session, the girls had successfully developed and demonstrated functional prototypes, showing how accessible technologies can be leveraged to create impactful, community-driven solutions while remaining secure and ethical in the digital space.