ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming
The ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track at the WSIS Forum 2021 consists of various virtual interactive sessions organized by the WSIS stakeholders and the WSIS team. Striving for 50/50 gender participation, this track is dedicated to the issues of bridging gender divide, women empowerment and promoting equality perspective through the use of ICTs. It was inaugurated at the High-Level Opening session on the week commencing 8 March 2021 and following a large number of workshop submissions it lasted till 19 March 2021.
The workshop organizers are representatives of private sector, academia, civil society, governments, international organizations, and others among which are: Association of Scientists, Developers, and Faculties (ASDF), Women’s Brain Project, Legacy International on initiative of the State Department of the United States, WSA, WOMENVAI, MedRet Healthcare Ltd and GeoTech Vision Enterprises.