As part of the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) co-hosted a panel discussion entitled "The Role of Technology in Empowering Women" with ITU and UN Women on Thursday, 24 March 2016. UN Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer Atefeh "Atti" Riazi delivered the keynote address, "Closing The Digital Gender Gap to Achieve Agenda 2030."

1. technology
empowering women
#CSW60 #DigitalDivide #GenderParity

2. Reducing the technology gender gap through
close the digital gender divide
through equal and affordable access to #ICTs

3. Reducing the technology gender gap through
while protecting women and girls from
cyber-related threats

4. provide opportunities for
training and access to
jobs in the technology sector

5. while addressing the leaky pipeline
that sees women leave those jobs at
a faster rate than men

6. women perform 66% of the world’s work
produce approximately 50% of the food
they earn 10% of the income
and own only 1% of the property
yet
Source: UN Women

7. increasing the economic empowerment of
women is essential to growing economic opportunity for
women and their families and ending poverty and hunger
women in emerging markets reinvest 90 cents of every
additional dollar of income in their families’ education, health
and nutrition*
however, barriers, such as financial exclusion and
ingrained stereotypes, continue to hold women back
Source: Harvard Business Review via U.S. Department of State

8. #technology can help break down
those barriers holding women back

9. the spread of information and communication
technology and global
interconnectedness has great
potential to accelerate human progress, to
bridge the #digitaldivide and to develop
knowledge societies, as does scientific and
technological #innovation across areas as
diverse as medicine and energy
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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AGENDA 2030 ON THE ROLE OF ICTs

10. but it won’t make a difference for women unless we
end the digital gender divide

11. foster and accelerate inclusive and sustainable
development by closing the digital gender gap
and harness the transformative
potential of #ICTs for women’s empowerment
Action Plan to Close the Digital Gender Gap
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ACTION PLAN TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL GENDER GAP

12. achieving #genderparity between men
and women could add $12 trillion to global growth
Source: McKinsey Global Institute

13. ending the digital gender divide is simply
smart economics

14. create
technologies
that empower women
entrepreneurs by
helping them be
more economically
independent

15. digital financial services are
instrumental to achieving gender parity, because they
increase women’s financial autonomy, support women’s
participation in the labor force, and improve the
performance of their businesses
2 billion people lack access to formal
financial services – most of them are women
Source: Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, Digital Financial Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Participation

16. develop #analytics to better
understand and continually
reassess the status of women and
progress on #genderparity

17. Source: http://genderstats.un.org
#analytics offer the ability to improve decision-
making by identifying actionable insights to guide policy

18. unite.un.org @UN_CITO UnitedNationsUnite
Thank you / Merci