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The Female Effect - Technology Through A Gender Lens

The Female Effect - Technology Through A Gender Lens

re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions vor 8 Jahren

Despite the importance of an active participation of women in the development of digital and mobile technologies, only 9% of all global venture capital deals involved female-led ventures. As technology and innovation progresses in all parts of the world,

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Kamila Danilowicz-Gösele, David Mwesigwa, Katherine Prescott,
Eugene Maseya, Maliha Khalid, Miriam Wohlfarth Closing the gender
gap in the tech industry has been at the forefront of the agenda
for quite some time now. The unequal representation and
participation of women in the tech industry is unfortunately still
a reality. Female-driven innovation has been on the rise for some
years, but the investment community is still unprepared to
understand this opportunity, much less identify and invest in this
next generation of ventures. For that purpose, the Vodafone
Institute for Society and Communications in 2016 launched the
F-LANE accelerator, Europe’s first social tech accelerator that
fosters startups that use technology to empower women. Because
female empowerment in technology is not just a women’s issue. After
six intensive weeks of coaching and mentoring, the third F-LANE
cohort will successfully graduate the programme. This session is
dedicated to their pitches. Each team will present their
cutting-edge venture that empowers women through technology in a 5
minute pitch. Their final pitch will be preceded by a short keynote
which aims to address the potentials of promoting gender inclusive
technology in order to add to the knowledge of the purposeful
empowerment of women worldwide.