The WSIS Process reaffirms that the empowerment of all women and girls, and their full, equal, safe and meaningful participation in the digital space is essential to close the digital divide and advance sustainable development.
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I challenge Governments to create an enabling environment for ICT and Gender Mainstreaming and pledge to continue addressing digital gender inclusion."
H.E. Neema Lugangira
Member of Parliament of Tanzania and Founder of NGO, Omuka Hub
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to continue promoting proactive engagement of female diplomats in Geneva to bring together the technical and diplomatic communities especially focusing on digital gender equality, as well as on digitalisation more generally, and I further challenge our colleague diplomats to"
H.E. Ms Lotte Knudsen
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, European Union
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to work towards gender equality in all panels I participate in and conferences which I organize."
Mei Lin Fung
Chair and Co-Founder, People Centered Internet
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I propose that businesses adopt 'equality' as one of their company core values, and I pledge to be an advocate for the importance of promoting, maintaining and inclusion of gender equality and women empowerment."
Mr. Vala Afshar
Chief Digital Evangelist, SalesForce
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge, in my work with industry, academia and government, to ensure all people of colour, First Nations peoples throughout the world, people living with disabilities, and people of all genders are recognised, embraced and called upon to share their perspectives, expertise and knowledge"
Mikaela Jade
Founder and CEO, InDigital
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to act to ensure that gender has less and less impact, and if possible none, on access to digital knowledge, education, jobs and development of each individual across the world and across different cultures."
Mr Benoit Louvel
Service Design Front Office Director, Customer Service and Operations, Orange Business Services
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to support women of any race, age or location to lead, participate and engage in digital transformation across different industries and business processes."
Tatyana Kanzaveli
Founder and CEO, Open Health Network
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to support female students in building confidence and growing their ICT skills."
Natalja Rodionova
Founder, Sisters of Code and IT Academy STEP Cambodia
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to bring gender perspective to ICT discussions and decision-making, as an essential means to bridge the gender digital divide."
Ms. Elena Estavillo Flores
CEO, Centro-i para la Sociedad del Futuro - Think Tank
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I propose an activity addressing digital gender inclusion, and am willing to make a better world for all."
Ms. Fang Li
Deputy Director, Research Institute of Technology and Standard, China Academy of Information and Communication Technology
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to raise awareness of advocacy projects and initiatives aiming at gender equity in business and healthcare."
Ms. Samantha Paoletti
Research and Business Development Manager, CSEM
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I enthusiastically support access to great digital education and jobs for both males and females. I look forward to a world in which all people have access to the education they need to achieve their goals."
Ms Magatte Wade
Entrepreneur, Magatte Wade
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I pledge to address digital gender inclusion for indigenous women in rural communities. I commit to developing leadership and organizing projects to improve women´s digital skills and create sustainable business models through the New Sun Road Solar Digital Community Centers."
Susana Arrechea
Global Programs Director, New Sun Road
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I challenge the high-level private and public stakeholders to address digital gender inclusion more strategically and I pledge to develop digital skills and building human capacities to match the needs of the XXIst society: although technologies are becoming increasingly affordable, the I also commit to strengthening youth employability, and creating new job opportunities, while ensuring the participation of girls and women in ICT in all socioeconomic sectors."
Yvette Ramos
President, WOMENVAI
"As a WSIS Gender Trendsetter, I propose to be an advocate for education of girls and women with visual impairments in the Global South on the usage of assistive and mainstream technologies to enrich their lives through my domain expertise. I will also motivate girls and women with or without disabilities through motivational talks on self-empowerment by sharing my journey on overcoming challenges to become a social entrepreneur."
Vidhya Y
Co-Founder, Vision Empower