Agenda for Women and ICTs Takes Centre Stage at CTO Forum 2013
Agenda for Women and ICTs Takes Centre Stage at CTO Forum 2013 London, 17 October 2013 -The 2013 Forum becomes most gender-balanced CTO event ever, with women representing almost 40% of the conference speakers. Issues faced by women in accessing or using ICTs took centre stage last week during the 2013 CTO Forum held in Abuja, Nigeria. Nearly 40% of speakers at the event were women, making this year’s Forum the most gender-balanced event ever organised by the CTO. “Many women continue to be marginalised significantly in their access and use of ICTs. Unfortunately, they also often tend to be underrepresented at international ICT events, and the CTO is making every effort to ensure that this imbalance is redressed. During the event, we learned a great deal from real life accounts of how unavailability or inadequacy of ICTs impacts women’s education or health, but more importantly we also heard much about innovative initiatives that have sought to change this”...