Invitation to the online side event
March 15, 2022 at 13:00 (CET)
Organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & IT for Change
Research demonstrates that in the emerging fourth industrial revolution, women -- especially those in the Global South -- are at disproportionate risk of being excluded from the economic dividends of frontier data and AI technologies and continuously relegated to the low value segments of global digital value chains in agriculture, manufacturing and services. Their lack of access to essential digital infrastructure -- connectivity, digital ID systems, digital payments architectures -- also intensifies their risk of exclusion from the social safety nets of the digital welfare state.
Together with our distinguished panelists, this event will discuss the following questions:
- How can we ensure feminist futures of work in the digital epoch?
- What policy and programmatic actions are needed at the global, national and local level to ensure women's economic empowerment pathways expand in digitalizing value chains?
- What are the respective roles and responsibilities of the UN system, governments, private sector and civil society?
The discussion will be kick-started with a brief invocation of the high points of "The Deal we Always Wanted" - a feminist call for action for gender-inclusive digital economies -- developed in 2020 by a global network of feminist activists convened by FES.
Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o9R0xMADTmWgAMF2fb2M_g
Contact:Bettina.Mursch@fes.de
Simultaneous translation will be available in Spanish, French & Arabic
Attached you will find the event’s → flyer. Please feel free to share within your networks.
We are looking forward to welcoming you on March 15.
