The Cuban Informatics Union (UIC) as part of Cuban civil society, has among its priorities the empowerment of women and girls in a digital context, guided by SDG 5 towards the United Nations 2030 Agenda, the project of technological intervention and social inclusion: Gender Equality in ICT on Wheels, part of the causes, characteristics and consequences of the digital gender gap in Cuba. It offers as a proposal for concrete action to contribute to reducing it, a schedule of activities designed based on the digital empowerment of women and girls in hard-to-reach communities, population settlements where the digital divide is more acutely appreciated. gender and who suffer from a technological infrastructure that enables the use of ICTs based on their personal and professional growth. Its principle is that the gap does not constitute a purely technological phenomenon, but is conditioned by the diverse realities in which women live from the economic, political, social and economic, political, social and accentuated inequalities by the patriarchal pattern that coined roles that limit their performance in the world of ICT, such as domestic overload, caring for dependent people, coupled with technological limitations for access to ICT.

http://www.uic.cu/

• Las Tunas, Cuba

• Women
• Remote and rural communities

The general conception of the project and diagnostic tools of the project are being applied in the province of Granma, oriented towards women decision-makers in the Public Administration. With variations in the design of the phases, since the reality of women in urban and rural communities is heterogeneous, the manifestations of the digital gender gap are diverse as are the conditions in which women live.

We affirm that development of ICTs provides enormous opportunities for women, who should be an integral part of, and key actors, in the Information Society. We are committed to ensuring that the Information Society enables women's empowerment and their full participation on the basis on equality in all spheres of society and in all decision-making processes. To this end, we should mainstream a gender equality perspective and use ICTs as a tool to that end.