Name: Designing a More Inclusive Digital Economy
Start: 2019-06-14T14:15:00+0100
End: 2019-06-14T15:30:00+0100

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Designing a More Inclusive Digital Economy

Session Objectives:

- Establishing that the digital economy can make the most contributions to development when we purposefully take measures to ensure for inclusion.
- Sharing research about how inclusive access and usage of the internet are today in certain regions, and where are the gaps that need to be addressed.
- Sharing research on how women and some marginalized groups experience the online world, and how this affects their Internet access and usage.
- Exploring policy recommendations that can be taken collaboratively to improve inclusion in the digital economy.

Speakers