Plans have been advanced for the unveiling of the GEM-TECH awards for
the third annual edition, reports ITRealms.
This year, ITRealms gathered the award tend to showcase live transformation
based on empowerment of women in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), ICT for Sustainable Development and digital
inclusion.
The award organize in partnership with the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations (UN) Women will jointly
announce the three winners of the 2016 GEM-TECH awards at ITU Telecom World in
Bangkok, Thailand, on 15 November, bringing global attention to the finest work
being done to empower women in the digital world and deliver on the Sustainable
Development Goal to improve gender equality (SDG5).
ITRealms reports that the GEM-TECH awards recognize outstanding
contributions by organizations, individuals and innovative policy-makers to
advance gender equality in the technology sector with a specific focus on
information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The third annual Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in Technology Awards
will highlight ITU's continued commitment to promoting innovation and
partnerships that work to shrink the overall global internet user gender gap,
which has grown since 2013 with currently more than 250 million fewer women
online globally than men.
Also, ITRealms gathered that the 2016 GEM-TECH Award winners were
selected by a panel of experts in gender mainstreaming and ICTs at ITU and UN
Women.
The awardees, ITRealms reports, will represent each of the following
categories: Apply Technology for Women's
Empowerment and Digital Inclusion; Promote Women in the Technology Sector; and Develop
Gender Responsive ICT Governance, Policy and Access.
The ceremony will feature opening remarks from high level representatives
of ITU and UN Women and a keynote address from Kathryn C. Brown, President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society.
ITRealms notes that ITU and UN Women are proud to also announce that the GEM-TECH Awards
worked closely with these partners from public and private sectors around the
world: the Internet Society, Verizon, MasterCard, Facebook, Swiss Confederation
Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority
(RURA), and VimpelCom.
Uj. N. Dominic/GEE
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