Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU

On Thursday 17 June, the GSMA Connected Women team launched the Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021. At the virtual launch event, Claire Sibthorpe of the GSMA spoke with Doreen Bogdan-Martin from ITU about her reactions to the latest mobile gender gap statistics; the importance of collecting this data; the key barriers that are preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use; and the work that ITU are doing to address the mobile gender gap.