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PROJECT OVERVIEWThe United Nations recently
made gender-equitable access toinformation and communicationstechnologies (ICTs) central to theSustainable Development Goals(SDGs), which set the global
development agenda until 2030.
Why? ICTs are powerful. They can help todeliver improved healthcare, quality education
for all, financial inclusion, more accountable
government, and much more. In adopting theSDGs, all countries have pledged to prioritise
universal Internet access, and to use ICTs toempower women.
But much hard work lies ahead if weare to translate this vision into reality. A
formidable gender gap in Internet access,digital skills and online rights exists - ourWomen’s Rights Online research shows that inmany communities, women are 50% less likely
than men to be online and 30-50% less likely

to use the Internet for economic and politicalempowerment. Women face many barriers- including high costs, lack of know-how,
and a scarcity of relevant and empoweringcontent - as well as social and legal obstacles
to speaking freely and privately online.
The Web Foundation and partners have
prepared these gender audits to help countries
assess what they need to do to overcome
the gender
genderdigital
digitaldivide.
divide.AENameTech Consultingof Partner
has taken the lead, in consultation with othernational stakeholders, on identifying concrete
steps that government can take in the nextyear to address the challenges and gaps
identified. We hope that this report card andaction plan will spark debate and galvanise
policy change.

A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY:
We based our scores on 14 simple indicators for which reliable empirical evidence exists,and grading was done in the second quarter of 2016. See the accompanying overview
for a description of the indicators and sources used. A full methodology is available on
our website.

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