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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women

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Wednesday 27 Feb 2019 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women explains the importance of connecting women.

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019

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Wednesday 20 Feb 2019 | Connected Women | English | Global | Report | Research | Resource |

This report reveals how the mobile gender gap is changing in low- and middle-income countries, ranks the factors preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use, and outlines the opportunities that closing the mobile gender gap represents.

Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 Methodology

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Friday 31 May 2019 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource |

This document describes the analysis and modelling undertaken for The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 as well as highlighting key areas of methodological change year-on-year.

Digital Equity Policy Brief W20 Japan 2019

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Thursday 14 Feb 2019 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women |

The W20, under the Japanese Presidency, presents this policy brief to outline some of the challenges for women’s access and meaningful use of digital technologies, and to provide guidance for coordinated and effective action by the G20.

Benoit Janin, CEO, Zanzibar Telecom

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Friday 27 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Benoit Janin, CEO of Zanzibar Telecom, talks to Connected Women about why digital and financial inclusion of women is such an important issue and explains how Zanzibar Telecom is working to reduce the digital gender gap.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership, ITU

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership of the ITU, shares her view of the mobile gender gap in low- and middle-income countries and explains the impact this gap has on women.

Irina Bokova, Former Director General, UNESCO

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Irina Bokova, Former Director General of UNESCO, explains why digital and financial inclusion of women is so important.

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO, Women’s World Banking

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking, shares her views on the importance of financial inclusion of women in low- and middle-income countries and explains what is preventing women from accessing mobile services.

Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA, explains why digital and financial inclusion is such an important issue for women in low- and middle-income countries.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, explains why digital and financial inclusion is such an important issue for women in low- and middle-income countries and shares her views on the primary challenges for addressing ...

Rachel Samren, Executive VP, Millicom

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Rachel Samren, Executive VP of Millicom, explains why digital and financial inclusion of women is such an important issue and shares her views on the main challenges involved in closing the mobile gender gap.

Sonia Jorge, Executive Director, A4AI

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of A4AI, explains why it is so important to address the mobile gender gap.

Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman, Econet Wireless

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Wednesday 30 May 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman of Econet Wireless, explains why digital and financial inclusion of women is an important issue.

Pradeep Shrivastava, CCO, Robi Axiata

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Wednesday 30 May 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Pradeep Shrivastava, CCO of Robi Axiata, talks to Connected Women about why digital and financial inclusion of women is such an important issue and shares what he sees as the primary challenges and solutions for closing the gender gap ...

Supun Weerasinghe, Group CEO, Dialog Axiata

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Monday 30 Apr 2018 | Accelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion | Connected Women | Video |

Supun Weerasinghe, Group CEO of Dialog Axiata, talks to Connected Women about why digital and financial inclusion of women is such an important issue and shares what he sees as key for successfully reaching women.

Transforming Women’s Lives with Mobile: UNGA Panel

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Tuesday 23 Oct 2018 | Building the financial ecosystem | Connected Women | Digital Identity | Digital literacy | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile for Development | Mobile health | Mobile internet for women | Mobile Money | Resource | Video |

‘Transforming Women's Lives with Mobile': A Panel Discussion Hosted by the GSMA at UNGA 2018. A conversation with Yasmina McCarty, GSMA; Elisabeth Biering, Telenor; Sanda Ojiambo, Safaricom; and Anna Falth, UN Women, highlighting ...

The GSMA’s Gender Analysis and Identification Toolkit (GAIT)

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Friday 31 Aug 2018 | Bangladesh | Case study | Connected Women | English | Financial inclusion for women | Gender | Global | Resource | Toolkit |

The GSMA's Gender Analysis and Identification Toolkit (GAIT) addresses an issue many mobile operators face: the absence of reliable gender-disaggregated data on mobile ownership and usage. This information gap is an important one to ...

Triggering mobile internet use in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania

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Friday 13 Jul 2018 | Connected Society | Connected Women | Cote d'Ivoire | Digital literacy | Gender | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania |

Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest level of mobile broadband coverage in the world; only 63% of the region’s population lived within reach of a 3G network at the end of 2017. It also has the lowest level of mobile internet penetration ...

A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use

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Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Case study | Connected Women | English | Global | Research | Resource |

While an increasing number of people are now using the internet, the lack of comparable and accurate gender disaggregated data obscures the true extent of the differences in access to, and use of the internet between men and women. ...

A framework to understand women’s mobile-related safety concerns in low-and middle-income countries

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Wednesday 28 Mar 2018 | Connected Women | English | Gender | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Report | Research | Resource |

There is a paradoxical relationship between mobile technology and women’s safety; while access to a mobile can make a woman feel safer, mobiles can also be a conduit for threats and these can act as a barrier to access and usage. Based ...