IWD Webinar 2023

Marked annually on March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day set aside to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It also provides an opportunity to call attention to the issues of women’s rights and to advocate for the acceleration of gender parity.

This year, the global campaign theme for IWD is Embrace Equity. However, in line with its priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), the UN Women has adopted the theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. The aim is to ‘explore the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social inequalities’ and to ‘spotlight the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls in digital spaces and addressing online and ICT-facilitated gender-based violence’.

This International Women’s Day webinar is bringing together leading women in technology and women empowerment to discuss the theme, ‘Technology as a Tool to Advance Gender Equality’.
The aim of the discussion is to highlight how technology contributes to closing the gender gap in education and the workspace while ensuring a reduction in the perpetration of technology-induced violence against women and girls.
The webinar also aims to garner recommendations on the actions that the technology industry and the government can take to close the gender gap in the use and adoption of technology, ultimately leading to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.