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Ignite's DigiSkills

DigiSkills.pk by Ignite, is the first large scale free online training program providing skill-based education, which has imparted more than 2.7 million trainings since 2018. DigiSkills.pk is effectively playing a vital role in providing training to the youth of Pakistan in future of work using technology.

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Building Inclusive Boards to Achieve Gender Equality

Women’s active participation and decision-making in the economy is crucial for long-term economic prosperity.

According to a study of 353 Fortune 500 companies, on average, the companies with the best financial performance had more women in their top management teams than lower performing companies.

Companies and organizations achieve success in the global economy when they take action to eliminating gender stereotypes in the workplace and ensuring that the talents, skills and perspectives of women are welcomed and valued in the boardroom. However, women cannot be considered a homogeneous group and when tackling barriers to their participation, an intersectional lens can be used to target women of diverse backgrounds with differing identities and abilities.

This guidance note forms part of a toolkit to help companies implement the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs). It illustrates the barriers that women face in accessing leadership roles and board seats, the benefits of board diversity and the many strategies that companies have taken to secure parity on boards and ensure that women’s perspectives and talents are equally valued in decision-making.

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Peace & Beyond: Cracking The Code of Tech for Peace

Peace and Beyond – published by British Council

 

Cracking the code of tech for peace: international perspectives of peacetech research and practice by Diana Dajer

 

Technology evolves rapidly. While both Google and Apple launched their applications’ stores in 2008, in 2017 the typical UK smartphone user had more than 80 applications on their phone, and used close to 40 per month, spending an average of slightly more than two hours in apps each day (App Annie, 2018).

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Tech4Peace: A Pathway to a Culture of Peace
Cracking the code of tech for peace: international perspectives of peacetech research and practice by Diana Dajer.

Technology evolves rapidly. While both Google and Apple launched their applications’ stores in 2008, in 2017 the typical UK smartphone user had more than 80 applications on their phone, and used close to 40 per month, spending an average of slightly more than two hours in apps each day (App Annie, 2018).

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Manual for Businesswomen
Source: winwin
This manual aims to assist women-owned businesses (WOB) in facilitating their access to participate as suppliers of other companies. “The Power of Procurement: How to Source From Women-Owned Businesses” Manual guides buying companies to ensure that their internal processes are sensitive to differences WOB still have in the market regarding their male peers. This document seeks to complement the mentioned manual and provide women entrepreneurs and businesswomen with practical orientations to engage with B2B markets or corporate markets, which have different characteristics than retail sales or mass consumption.
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Championing Female Leadership in Tech
GSMA and Oslo Metropolitan University for the EQUALS Leadership Coalition

The EQUALS global partnership for digital gender equality published a pilot study today entitled “Perceptions of Power: Championing Female Leadership in Tech.” The study examines how men and women in middle and senior management positions define leadership. This is critical as perceptions of power, and other factors, effect the gender gap in leadership. The study provides a roadmap and best practices to help promote and retain women in the mobile and tech industries, where they currently hold less than a quarter of leadership roles.

To promote and retain women in leadership roles in the mobile and tech industries, the report recommends that organisations:

  1.  Acknowledge a range of transformational leadership styles
  2. Provide incentives for individuals to develop effective leadership skills
  3. Develop mentorship and training programmes
  4. Increase research into and spread awareness of the factors affecting leadership equity and fairness.
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Women's Empowerment Rising from Violent Conflict & Recovery: Real Life Stories

Based on the findings, the report calls for stronger policy attention in five areas:
• Establish and maintain local security
• Support women’s accumulation and independent control of major assets
• Build connectivity to active markets and strengthen women’s economic participation
• Make women’s empowerment and community participation cornerstones of post-conflict reconstruction and development programs
• Strengthen the contribution of long-term social assistance programs to gender equality and post-conflict recovery

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