COVID-19 pandemic that has been ongoing around the world also offers us unique opportunities. As Technology and Innovation Action Group leaders, we should adopt a digital transformation model based on social gender equality in post-COVID recovery period with our public and private sector stakeholders.
United Nations Women’s Department (UN Women)
The online Forum organized on 29-31 May in Mexico hosted numerous participants from private sector representatives to international NGOs and youth organizations. The forum that aims to stimulate the stakeholders at global level to ensure social gender equality will be organized for the second time in Paris on June.
Action Groups
Actions Groups that operated under different themes in this Forum announced their targets and roadmaps for social gender equality. 2026 targets that will shape the efforts of Technology and Innovation Action Group are determined as follows: To increase the access to digital technologies and universal digital literacy to decrease the digital gap between the genders by 50%, to increase technology and innovation investments towards women and girls by 50%, to double the number of women employed in technology and innovation fields, to make countries and technology companies to be accountable for technology-based gender-based violence.
“The digital gap between genders has become a deeper issue to achieve social gender equality. COVID-19 pandemic that has been ongoing around the world also offers us unique opportunities. As Technology and Innovation Action Group leaders, we should adopt a digital transformation model based on social gender equality in post-COVID recovery period with our public and private sector stakeholders.”
We need the important undertakings by governments, private sector, international organizations and NGOs to realize large-scale transformation projects about social gender equality.
Via: United Nations (UN Women)
