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CSW70 | WSIS Side Event: Empowering Woman and Girl in the Digital Age – Action Toward WSIS 2035

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Mar 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am –

The WSIS+20 UNGA Resolution highlights urgent gender gaps in digital access, skills, leadership, and online safety, and calls for accelerated, multistakeholder action to ensure women and girls can participate fully and safely in the digital age. It mandates that gender equality be mainstreamed across all WSIS Action Lines.

CSW 70 WSIS Side Event: Empowering Woman and Girl in the Digital Age – Action Toward WSIS 2035

March 16th | On-site event – Venue: UN HQ New York, Conference Room 9 | From 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM ET

    The WSIS+20 UNGA Resolution highlights urgent gender gaps in digital access, skills, leadership, and online safety, and calls for accelerated, multistakeholder action to ensure women and girls can participate fully and safely in the digital age. It mandates that gender equality be mainstreamed across all WSIS Action Lines. To explore how WSIS partners can translate WSIS+20 gender commitments into concrete action by 2035 through:
  • Closing gender digital divides
  • Strengthening digital skills & leadership
  • Ensuring safety and rights online
  • Expanding participation of women in digital economies and governance
  • Aligning WSIS Action Lines with gender mandates for implementation to 2035
H.E. Ms. Suela Janina, Ambassador & Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations Ms. Janina serves as the Co-Facilitator of the WSIS+20 Review and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations. She brings extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy to this role, having served as Ambassador to the European Union (2014–2024) and General Director for Multilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012–2014). She holds a doctorate in international law from the University of Tirana.
Ms. Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO and Founder, Women at the Table Ms. Kraft-Buchman is the CEO and Founder of Women at the Table and Co-Founder of the A+ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, a leader of the UN’s Generation Equality Action Coalition for Technology & Innovation. She leads the AI & Equality: Human Rights Toolbox initiative, which works for a human rights-based approach to AI development. Additionally, she serves as the Civil Society lead for the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Collective Impact Coalition for Digital Inclusion and on the Strategic Board of the Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online.
Ms. Gitanjali Sah, Strategy and Policy Coordinator, International Telecommunication Union — Moderator Gitanjali Sah is Strategy and Policy Coordinator at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process. She has more than 15 years of work experience in ICT policy issues at the national, regional and international level. She is an experienced International Civil Servant having worked at several UN Agencies. She holds M.Phil. Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK and a Masters in Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.
 

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