The World Bank and CES have partnered to launch the Global Tech Challenge to bridge the digital gender divide.
CES is one of the largest tech events globally.
The aim of the challenge is to reward innovators and startups with solutions that empower women in the following areas:
- Platforms: The development of solutions that increase the availability of locally relevant digital platforms catering to women. For example, local marketplaces and solutions building online communities for women.
- Digital skills: Solutions that support the development of digital skills by women and girls. For example, applications that use personalized and adaptive learning to teach basic, intermediate or advanced digital skills.
- Online content: Solutions that increase the availability of women-oriented content. For example, locally relevant content on reproductive health or to combat gender-based violence.
- Enhancing digital access: Solutions that focus on innovative business models that make it easier for women to access and use digital technologies and enable the use of digital identification, such as pay-as-you-go and other models that promote women’s sustained use of mobile internet.
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The selected solutions will be able to engage with governments and World Bank Group teams to potentially scale their solutions within development projects.
The challenge winners will have access to mentorship from tech companies and World Bank leaders, as well as the platform to share their stories at multiple international fora such as CES 2021, regional conferences, and the World Bank Group’s Spring and Annual Meetings.
In addition to this, they will also receive recognition and brand visibility at CES 2021 as a Global Tech Challenge winner.
