Organizations sprang up worldwide to make the opportunities offered by the tech boom more accessible to women; millions of girls were introduced to basic tech concepts, training as coders through bootcamps, summer schools and engagement programs. Code First Girls and Girls Who Code were founded in 2012, in the U.K. and U.S., respectively. The principles behind these organizations were the same: to increase the representation of women in the tech industry. The UN is attempting to respond to the shift to AI with a range of initiatives, including its “UN Women AI School,” which launched last year. It is important to focus on preserving the “hard-won gains in the past decades, investing in women and girls’ education, skill building, getting girls to code,” Wickramanayake told Straight Arrow.