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Cracking the Code: Empowering Rural Women and Girls through Digital Skills; Side Event during the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 14 March 2018, United Nations Headquarters: Report

Corporate Author
UNESCOGermany. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Collation
6 p.
Resource Language
English
Year of publication
2018
Topic
Sustainable development / SustainabilityTransformative initiatives / Transformative pedagogies
Resource Type
Conference and programme reports
Level of education
Early childhood care and educationPrimary educationSecondary educationHigher educationLifelong learningTechnical and vocational education and trainingNon-formal education
Region
AfricaAsia and the PacificEurope and North America
Place of publication
Paris

UNESCO and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) co-organised the side event โ€˜Cracking the code: Empowering rural women and girls through digital skillsโ€™ on 14 March 2018, United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the 62nd session of the CSW. More than 500 participants participated in the event while a broad global audience followed the discussions through live webcast.
This report provides an overview of the discussions and examples of government, civil society organizations, and private sector initiatives to close the gender digital gap and empower rural girls and women to be ICT users, creators and innovators through gender-responsive digital skills training as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education more broadly.

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