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Frontier Technologies to Protect the Environment and Tackle Climate Change
UN Women
Innovation and technology seldom benefit women and men equally. This has to change; there must
be no further growth in the gender divide. Women and girls must have equal opportunities to use
their originality and creativity to shape the frontier technology products and policies that impact their
lives and those in their communities. And designs must not use algorithms and data sets that reflect
and reproduce historical gender biases.
The dramatic changes possible through innovation can be a vital force for good in women’s lives. We
need that power to bring significant, positive opportunities and action in the biggest challenges to
sustainable development, such as climate change, and to arrive at effective and creative solutions
to systemic social and economic issues that are preventing progress in protecting the environment.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
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