More and more women need to occupy tech-spaces so they can be part of designing an inclusive future. To achieve this, it is essential that women are equipped with skills and knowledge to leverage the start-up and tech space. This not only gives equal opportunities for women and girls--hence achieving SDG 5--but will also have a ripple effect in achieving Agenda 2030.
Inability to do so can lead to discrimination and distrust of technology. For instance, there can be Algorithmic biases in the Artificial Intelligence system. An AI system learns to make decisions based on the training data provided. And if this data is fed by a homogenous group of people, it can carry forward their biases. This can stem gender biases, age discrimination, and racial prejudice.
Since 2019, UNDP Pakistan has been partnering with CIRCLE to support the annual She-Loves-Tech competition in Pakistan. She-Loves-Tech is the world’s largest start-up competition for women and technology. The platform seeks out and accelerates the best entrepreneurs and technology and provides them with an ecosystem of support--through funding and a network of global community. Over the last three years, UNDP has supported over 130 women-led tech-startups.
Last year we reached out to few of these entrepreneurs. We wanted to hear their stories, to learn how their start-ups were coping or improvising in the pandemic, and to gather insights what women in tech need in Pakistan. To this end, we travelled and met women...
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