GSMA at the Women Deliver 2016 conference

GSMA held a panel entitled, ‘Accelerating digital and financial inclusion for Women’ at the Women Deliver 2016 conference in Copenhagen this year. Held once every three years, Women Deliver was the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Digital and financial inclusion is important to help achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment and GSMA ensured that this was on the agenda at Women Deliver. Director General of the GSMA, Mats Granryd, moderated this panel that included Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands; UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development; Dr Purna Sen, Director of Policy at UN Women; Rachel Samren, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Millicom; and Sarah Hendriks, Director of Gender Equality at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The panel discussion highlighted that in an increasingly connected world women are being left behind and that action is required to address the gender gap and unlock the substantial benefits that digital and financial inclusion can deliver. It explored how lack of financial independence, mobile ownership and access to information can be detrimental in a variety of ways and discussed a number of the challenges along with the possible solutions and some of the actions being taken by mobile operators and others.

The panel was livestreamed and we’d now like to share the full video of it with you.

 

 

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