Achieving women’s equality can promote global prosperity. Yet, with the rise of new technologies and the dependence on connectivity, the gender digital divide has introduced a new obstacle that is impeding progress in advancing women’s empowerment.

As more Missions like Colombia grapple with the emerging opportunities and challenges of our digital world, USAID’s Digital Strategy is shaping the Agency’s response. In order to design policies and programs that take advantage of technology, stakeholders

Transmitting data through transparent fibers just thicker than a human hair, the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine optical fiber cable revolutionized Liberia’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.

With its strategic geographic position in the Indo-Pacific region, the small island nation Timor-Leste is primed for international investment and growth. Catalyzing such growth opportunities requires the presence of a strong ICT sector.

The international development community has coalesced around an overarching objective to localize. USAID defines localization as “the set of internal reforms, actions, and behavior changes USAID is undertaking to ensure our work puts local actors in the le

USAID and Mastercard partnered to develop a business accelerator program for early stage women owned tech entrepreneurs across Colombia, Perú and Ecuador known as Start Path Empodera, based on Mastercard’s global Start Path accelerator.

In August 2020, the Microsoft Corporation‘s Airband Initiative and the U.S. Agency for International Development (launched the USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative, a public-private partnership seeking to bring Internet access to more women

In 2022, the Bangladeshi government launched Bangladesh Vision 2041 a strategy for the country’s digitization, designed to propel Bangladesh towards its goal of becoming a high income country by 2041.

Access to technology is unequal in India. Poor affordability, lack of infrastructure, limited awareness, cultural and social barriers, a nd insufficient government initiatives all hamper access to computers, mobile phones, and the Internet and contribute

Timor-Leste’s significant natural resources and strategic location in the Indo-Pacific region have rendered the nation a target for exploitation and cyberattacks by non-democratic actors. The nation’s underdeveloped Information and Communications Technolog