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Are women the future of Tech?
There are too few women in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the numbers are going the wrong way. Girls are not studying, interested in, and in many cases without...
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Women with the Wave – a clarion call for more female characters and positive...
It gave me great pleasure to deliver my keynote address at the Women with the Wave: High Level Forum on Digital Inclusion of Women and Girls in the beautiful city of Seoul. It was an opportunity to...
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Broadband for improving the lives of women – and their families
Empowering women through ICTs has a direct link to social and economic development. Some of the most powerful ways to advance development focus on increasing women’s access to education, healthcare and...
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ITU celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
There are approximately 1 billion people living with some form of disability around the world. This represents 15 per cent of the global population. It is within this context, that the International...
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Child Online Protection: accessible but safer Internet
At the mere touch of a button, the younger generation can call up the entire history of humanity, explore every corner of our planet, experience scientific discovery in all its various forms and...
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ITU celebrates International Women’s Day
Women play a key role in reducing poverty and promoting social and economic development for themselves, their families and their countries. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can provide...
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A Networking Night out with Girls in ICT Rwanda
Girls In ICT Rwanda was born out of the ITU’s Girls in ICT Day which was celebrated for the first time in Rwanda in 2011. During the planning period for that event, the women entrepreneurs involved...
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Empowering young women through Technology
Recently I had the pleasure to participate in a Google hangout to discuss how we can best empower young women through technology, a topic which is top of the ITU agenda and one to which I am personally...
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Girls Get Inspired on Girls in ICT Day
On April 15th, 2014 I had the great pleasure of taking part of Girls in ICT Day at ITU Headquarters in Geneva. Only in its 4th year as a UN recognized International Day, Girls in ICT Day has truly been...
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Why GEM-Tech? Putting Gender on the ICT Map
It is a fact that women have less access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with 200 million fewer women online globally than men. It is also a fact that women are underrepresented...
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Women in ICTs: Shaping the Future of Technology
My smart phone, computer, and broadband access are the most important tools I have. I use them every day at work and in my personal life – to conduct business; make appointments; talk, text or video...
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Girls in ICT Day 2015: Inspiring the Next Generation of ICT Leaders
Five years ago, ITU’s membership backed an initiative to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of information and...
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What the GEM-TECH Awards mean to me
In late October 2014, I travelled to Busan, Republic of Korea, to collect one of the first GEM-Tech Awards at ITU’s 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference. I was deeply honored to accept the award on behalf...
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Digital Divide Progress Report: 15 Year Review
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have driven global development in an unprecedented way, providing huge opportunities for social and economic development. Billions of people enjoy...
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Cyber Violence against Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a problem of pandemic proportion; it is estimated that one in three women will experience some form of violence in her lifetime. The rapid proliferation of...
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Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and Driving International...
On 17 November, Geena Davis, ITU Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICTs, gave a speech to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the theme of ‘Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and...
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