1. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

2. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
@roningirl
cheryl.miller@dlii.org

3. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Technology:
The Great Equalizer…
7.3 Billion People in the World

4. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
The Great Equalizer?
66%
16%
18%
Offline
Men Online
Women Online
2013 - Doubling Digital Opportunities, ITU, UNDP

5. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

6. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Digital Skills Gender Gap
A Woman is…
•Less likely to have access to the internet
•Less likely to be digitally skilled
•More likely to get left behind in the digital
disruption
49%
24%
27%
Skilled
Unskilled
Source: Eurostat

7. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Tech Expert Gender Gap
Digital Skills Gap: 2005-2012
•A persistent year-on-year trend
•Reflects a gap of 12M women
•2% of the total EU adult population
Tech Expert Gap: 2005-2015
•Relative Drop: 16% to 22%
•Absolute Participation: 0% Change

8. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
In Europe, women are…
• 13% of European Publicly-traded
Boards
• 1 in 5 Employees in ICT in Europe
• 10% of Tech Starters (3% in Belgium)
The down & dirty
25% of Computer Science
Degrees
30% of ICT Sector Jobs
20% of Technical Roles
in ICT
20% of ICT
Management
Roles
10% of ICT
Board
Roles
In Europe, women hold…
Europe’s Leaky Tech Pipeline - Source: Digital Leadership Institute, 2016

9. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

10. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Despite…
• 900.000 tech jobs unfilled by
2020
• Massive youth
unemployment
• 9B € per year revenue
potential
• Better decision-making
• Resonance with user-base
• Positive impact on bottom-
line

11. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Women as (Digital)
Entrepreneurs
In Europe women are:
• 16-24% of SME owners
• 29% of all entrepreneurs
• 34.4% of the EU self-employed
• 30% in startups
• 3% of tech starters (in Belgium)
Sources: 2014 DG Grow: Statistical Data on Women
Entrepreneurs in Europe; wayra.co.uk @WayraUK |
@WayraUnLtd
In the UK women entrepreneurs are:
• 30% of all entrepreneurs
• 9% of the women in the active labour
force
• 85% Solo
• 54% Part-time
• 29% have leadership roles within
startups
• 32% more likely to note social impact
as main business focus
Diversity has helped UK starters to:
78.9% - compete
75% - overcome challenges
71.5% - find new markets

12. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
80%
Women (tech) enterpreneurship….
•85% of women starters fly solo
•FFF: Fleeing, Fed up Forty-somethings
•Mature, mothers, business partners of husbands
The “weakest link”

13. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
80%

14. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
•5% of VC Funding
•85% of VC Firms have no women partners
•Women angel-investors?
•Startup? - Scaleup? - Steady-state?
The down & dirty

15. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Europe’s “secret weapon”
•GDP:
•Employment:

16. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

17. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

18. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
What do we do?

19. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

20. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Technology:
The Great Equalizer
Source: Gartner 2015
• Consumer Cloud: 4x growth to
$175B by 2025
• Industry 4.0: $1.7T in EU by 2025
• Mobile:
• 10x since 2000
• 7B subscriptions
• IoT - 1% five years ago
• 220B objects online by 2020

21. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
The Opportunity
Starters:
Cloud + Mobile + ESTEAM
Opportunity: WELL PAID JOBS with NO PAY
GAP + Retirement Package
Experts:
• Biotech
• Cyber Security
• Data Science
• Mobile (anything)
• DevOps
• IT Mgt
• ….

22. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Restore Balance

23. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
Cultivate & Nourish!• Two Communities:
- Girl-focused: digitalmuse.org
- Women-focused: inQube.eu, CYPRO.org
- Role Models: AdaAwards.com
• Best Practice Focus:
- ESTEAM skills: STEM + Arts & Entrepreneurship
- Role Models
- Confidence- & Community-building
• Flagship Initiatives:
- Ada Awards: Digital Girl, Woman & Organization of the
Year
- Digital Muse Girl Tech Fest
- inQube Move It Forward - female digital starters
weekend

24. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
• Move It Forward - female digital starters weekends
- 2017: Brussels, Istanbul, Sofia…
- Women Refugees, Women in Media, etc.
- Beginners, ESTEAM skill-focused, social mission
- Projects become eligible for inQubation ;)
• Digital Brusselles - female tech incubator
- Europe's first female tech incubator
- Launched in Brussels on 4 October 2017
inQube.eu

25. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
• Target: teen and adult women
• Mission: providing unique support women need to become
digital entrepreneurs and leaders, and to drive positive change
in their communities
• Multilingual support offering:
• Community
• Curriculum
• Consulting
Female Tech Incubator
Digital Brusselles

26. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
• #GirlTechFest:
- 2017-2018: Brussels, London, Rio, Dublin
✓ AWS: UK & Ireland
✓ EY - Girls in ICT Day 2018: CH, AU, DE
- ESTEAM skills for Girls (11-14 years old)
- 250 girls per event; 100 volunteers; 25 workshops
- replicable, scaleable…
• DM After School
DigitalMuse.org

27. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
• First Cohort: 2017 in Brussels
• IT Expert Areas :
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Data Science, AI, etc.
• Mission: Bootcamp, Mission Support & Tracking to (IT) Management
• Target Stakeholders:
- Women with work experience & transversal skills
- No IT skills
• Replicable, scaleable…
CYPRO - Cyber Professional
Training & Job Placement Program

28. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018
AdaAwards.com
• 30 November Brussels: 2017-18 European Ada
Awards Ceremony
• Recognising Digital Woman, Girl & “Impact
Organisation” of the Year
• Scope: Europe, Africa… MENA? Asia?

29. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018

30. Cheryl Miller, Founding Director, Digital Leadership Institute - "Open Knowledge for Social Innovation" - Louvain La Neuve, 12 March 2018