Women in Tech® is an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. The organization focuses on 4 primary areas that are a call for action: Education, Entrepreneurialism, Social Inclusion, Science & Innovation. The aim is to educate, equip, and empower women and girls with the necessary skills and confidence to succeed in STEM career fields. More than an organization, we are a global movement made up of members, partners, and an ecosystem of networks that share our values and that have the same mission of striving for an Inclusive Tech industry. The issue of women empowerment in Tech is of major importance. We have to tackle it as a global community so as to drive sustainable change and create the necessary impact. Our community is represented by persons of all abilities – regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, or sexual orientation. We have members in over 60 countries.

https://women-in-tech.org/ru/

• Russian Federation

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Remote and rural communities

1) December 2019 - Chapter launch with more than 300 participants and top speakers (e.g. Microsoft Russia board member), 2) February 2020 - Meetup “Ways to IT” with more than 200 participants and 14 mentors. 3) March 2020 - Meetup “Female leadership in Tech” at The Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry with 6 top speakers, female leaders (e.g. Director for Corporate Development and HR at MegaFon). 4) May 2020 - QA-school for 50 girls. 8 mentors taught them the foundations of the quality assurance engineer. As a result, the participants are ready to become interns at a new profession. 5) May 2020 - Women in Tech track at Skolkovo Startup Village, the largest conference in Russia. We invited 7 top-notch speakers from the USA, Canada, Europe such as Noelle Silver (Vice President Of Digital Technology, NPR National Public Radio).

The live broadcasting of 4-panel discussions with WIT speakers gathered 6 348 views and was well received by the audience. Elina also acted as a speaker and a mentor at this conference. 6) May 2020 - the first in the world 24h Virtual World Tour “Women taking up space” which gathered more than 5000 participants and 200 speakers (including Dr. Christyl Johnson, Deputy Director for Technology and Research Investments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt) https://womenintech.virtualconference.com/#/agenda 7) Since December 2019 the Women in Tech network in Russia grew to include more than 2000 members and mentors.

C6. Enabling environment 13. Confidence and security are among the main pillars of the Information Society. Governments should foster a supportive, transparent, pro-competitive and predictable policy, legal and regulatory framework, which provides the appropriate incentives to investment and community development in the Information Society. We ask the Secretary General of the United Nations to set up a working group on Internet governance, in an open and inclusive process that ensures a mechanism for the full and active participation of governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and international organizations and forums, to investigate and make proposals for action, as appropriate, on the governance of Internet by 2005. The group should, inter alia: develop a working definition of Internet governance; identify the public policy issues that are relevant to Internet governance; develop a common understanding of the respective roles and responsibilities of governments, existing intergovernmental and international organisations and other forums as well as the private sector and civil society from both developing and developed countries; prepare a report on the results of this activity to be presented for consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of WSIS in Tunis in 2005. Governments are invited to: facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange Centres;