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b. Initiatives to equip every student with a personal computer for their studies by
offering installment payment options to low income families who purchase a
personal computer;

14. Recommends that governments, in collaboration with the ITU, conduct surveys and/or
public education campaigns on ICT use every 6 months throughout the country;

15. Encourages international organisations and companies, particularly in countries where
projects are not very developed, to join the NGO “EQUALS” in its aims to:
a. Improve women and girls’ safety on and access to digital technology,

b. Support the development of science, technology, engineering, and math skills
of women and girls,

c. Promote women in decision-making roles within the ICT field;

16. Encourages the robust implementation of technological, cultural, and knowledge-
based support to those working and participating in the education system in order to

enhance the global empowerment of women, via actions such as:
a. Promoting and supporting local non-profit-organisations to organise activities
and teach ICT skills to girls and women,

b. Urging schools and local communities to collaborate with local non-profit-
organisations in order to provide a combination of technology to those
deprived of it, targeting key roots of the gender digital divide, including
capability, motivation, access (infrastructure, affordability) and trust;

17. Calls upon private companies and NGOs in the ICT sector to:
a. Organise their marketing campaigns with a focus on equal ICT access between

men and women, in particular by lowering prices for women who cannot afford
it or by organising special events for them (e.g. on 8 March),
b. Collaborate to overcome the geographical and digital isolation that fuels the
digital divide;

18. Urges the creation of programmes with the intent of closing the digital gender divide,
such as:
a. Locally organised and run programmes within schools and organisations which

promote women and girls in STEM careers,
b. Affordable access plans which allow women and girls from low-income
households to have access to ICTs,

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