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…
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…
Press release: ITU, UN Women celebrate the power of technology to transform women’s lives everywhere
Inaugural GEM-TECH Awards bring winners from around the world to Busan, Korea to highlight the transformative power of ICTs Busan, 28 October, 2014 – Seven outstanding individuals and organizations leading pioneering projects and advocacy linked to harnessing the power of information and…