Newspaper article – Engendering the Digital Economy: Reflections from Women Market Vendors in Uganda

From e-commerce ventures that facilitate entrepreneurship to e-governance and e-learning platforms that take classrooms to individuals, technological innovations have proved over time to have the potential to serve as powerful tools that break trends and increase awareness, access and availability of opportunities especially for previously marginalized groups.

However, history shows that such innovation does not certainly and automatically benefit all alike. For example, of the estimated 2.7 billion people currently unconnected to the internet globally, the majority are women and girls. Unfortunately, this gap is continuously expanding, especially in developing countries, creating a pertinent need to support digital gender equality interventions (International Telecommunication Union, 2022).