Press release: ITU, UN Women celebrate outstanding projects and leaders using ICTs to transform women’s lives
Annual GEM-TECH Award winners highlight key role of technology in advancing women’s empowerment, health & education New York, 14 December, 2015 – Three outstanding organizations and three distinguished individuals leading projects and advocacy to boost gender equality and women’s empowerment using information…
Press release: ITU / UN Women GEM-TECH Awards highlight need to bridge global gender ‘digital divide’
Awards aim to strengthen empowerment of women and girls through ICTs Geneva, 8 December 2015 – The second annual GEM-TECH Awards, which recognize outstanding work to leverage the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote the empowerment of women and…
Press release: ITU, UN Women recognize outstanding contributions to women’s empowerment through technology
Finalists announced in second-annual GEM-TECH Awards Geneva, 1 December 2015 – ITU and UN Women have announced the twelve finalists for the second annual GEM-TECH Awards, which recognize outstanding work to leverage the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to promote…
Press release: ITU marks 150th anniversary with global celebrations
ITU150 Awards presented to Martin Cooper, Robert E. Kahn, Mark I. Krivocheev, Ken Sakamura, and Thomas Wiegand Bill Gates accorded special recognition Geneva, 18 May 2015 – ITU celebrated its 150th anniversary on 17 May, marking a long and illustrious history at…
ITU Blog: Why GEM-Tech? Putting Gender on the ICT Map
It is a fact that women have less access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with 200 million fewer women online globally than men. It is also a fact that women are underrepresented in the ICT sector workforce, where they represent…
PP-14 Highlights: Gender equality and mainstreaming – Winners of the GEM-TECH Awards 2014
Seven winners received the Gender Equality and Mainstreaming Technology (GEM-TECH) Awards 2014 here in Busan on 28 October at a plenary session of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. ITU and UN Women launched this new global annual technology award in June…
