ITU and UN Women-led coalition launch the first Gender Digital Inclusion Map
Bangkok, 16 November 2016 — EQUALS, the global partnership to shrink the digital gender gap launched by ITU and UN Women, unveiled the world’s first Gender Digital Inclusion Map, an open-source product created by ITU and the United Nations University Computing Society’s research on the broad range of public and private sector organizations tackling the gender digital divide at the 2016 Telecom World.
The Gender Digital Inclusion Map aims to pin all programmes for women in tech around the world on a single map to facilitate collaboration in the race to meet Sustainable Development Goal #5 and shrink the growing gap between women and men’s access, utilization, and leadership in the information communication and technology (ICT) industry. The map will be a resource for NGOs and companies and ministries looking to scale-up their efforts for women who are looking for ICT training courses and for governments to understand the priority areas to focus their investments.
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