A New Nigeria that Powers a Digital and Innovation-driven Economy to Amplify Her Potential is POssible!
The digital economy is booming, but not everyone is benefitting equally. Women across regions and continents still face many obstacles to start and grow digital businesses, including gender bias, lower participation in decision-making processes, and unequal access to funding and technology.
To tackle inequalities in the digital economy, we need to ensure women have a seat and a voice at the policymaking table, we need more equitable digital infrastructure, emphasizing that connectivity, accessibility and affordability of the internet as major prerequisites.
Digital transformation of ecosystems around the world is opening new avenues for entrepreneurship. It is enabling physical and traditional organizations to evolve, novel business models to be applied, and new forms of digital entrepreneurship to emerge.
Sustaining and accelerating women’s success in the digital economy will require additional support for strengthening women’s skills, expanding financing options, and increasing women-led businesses’ penetration into higher value sectors.
We have a chance to leverage a powerful avenue for women’s inclusion through the digital economy, with new business opportunities, efficiency gains, and better access to markets and global value chains.
The digital economy has by far become the greatest economic transformation of our times. The actions we take today will help shape a more gender-inclusive world and balance the scales of inequality.