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Women’s Rights Online

As the digital revolution steams ahead, women and girls are being left behind — poor urban women in the developing world are 50% less likely than men to access the internet. Determined to tackle this challenge head on, our Women’s Rights Online network drives women's empowerment on and through the web by working to reform policy and regulation to close the digital gender gap.

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Ingrid Brudvig

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Ingrid leads our Women's Rights Online programme.

Nanjira Sambuli

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Nanjira leads the Web Foundation’s policy advocacy efforts to promote digital equality in access to and use of the web. A Nairobi-based researcher and analyst, Nanjira brings broad expertiseRead more

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Deepening our understanding of the digital gender divide: Web Foundation Women’s Rights Online 2019 Household Survey

October 8, 2019

This post was written by Ingrid Brudvig, Gender Policy Manager; Chenai Chair, Research Manager: Gender and Digital Rights; and Nanjira Sambuli, Senior Policy Manager.

Championing gender-responsive policies in the digital sector

April 24, 2019

This post was written by Ingrid Brudvig, Gender Policy Manager, Web Foundation.

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Internet access offers a powerful avenue for people around the world to assert their rights and to claim social, economic and political opportunities for empowerment. Yet, half the world’s population remains offline — most of them women, and most in developing countries. Recent research shows that this persistent, pernicious digital gender gap is worsening — a fact that threatens to deepen existing inequalities and to undermine global development as the benefits of technological change are captured primarily by men. Our Women’s Rights Online network is working to reverse this trend by focusing its efforts on impacting the policy needed to bridge the gender gap in technology, data, and policymaking. Comprising women’s rights and digital rights groups across 17 low- and middle-income countries, the network wants to see evidence-based national ICT and gender plans established in at least seven new countries within the next five years.

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