ITU and USTTI jointly held a training series on ''Technologies, Strategies and Policies to Connect the Unconnected: Empowering Women Leaders to Bridge Digital Divides and Promote Inclusive Connectivity''.
The training built on two initiatives: POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women's Economic Rise and EQUALS (the Global Partnership to bridge the Gender Digital Divide). It facilitated an exchange of knowledge and lessons learned from regulators, policymakers, service providers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders working to increase connectivity and digital inclusion.
At the opening of the training, BDT Director Doreen Bogdan-Martin stated that ''There's not only an urgent need to address the gender digital divide that hinders women's access to tech, but empowering women's leadership will also be critical to our success in overcoming other inequalities that pervade the digital sphere.''
She observed that there's a severe mismatch between existing talent, and the leadership and impact that women are enabled to deliver.
For this reason, the training aimed to address the different challenges and needs of emerging women leaders, capture different ideas to improve conditions for them, and provide women in technology with useful takeaways to help them advance their careers.
