TECH 4 ALL: BRIDGING DIGITAL GENDER GAP IN NIGERIA

This Initiative "Tech 4 All" aims to close the digital gender gap and empower women and girls to use technology to create innovative solutions to advance equality in their communities. The initiative focuses on equipping women and girls with digital skills, with a focus on rural women and girls, career women, women in business, University and high school girls. Young women in rural areas will learn to acquire digital and entrepreneurship skills and to take advantage of the opportunities in the digital world of work. Participants are supported by mentors and paired with micro-work opportunities hosted by local organizations and companies. The schoolgirls will learn how to use technology for storytelling, blogging and generating income through content creation. The project will create new media clubs in high schools and facilitate online group learning channels. The women and girls will also be empowered to tell their own stories, increase female voices in the media industry, and raise awareness on important issues on social media especially at World Pulse