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ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local GoodRevi Sterling: Stategies to Close the Gender Digital DivideRevi Sterling (Gender and Technology Specialist, DAI Global; Director, USAID WomenConnect Challenge) shares five proven strategies to close the gender digital divide and increase women’s economic empowerment.Explore more ICT4D content on our website www.ict4dconference.org
2021-05-1914 min
Beyond the Blue BadgeBridging the gender digital divide with S. Revi SterlingMicrosoft alum S. Revi Sterling heads the U.S. Agency for International Development Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative’s WomenConnect Challenge. What that means is that she gets to put her passion for eliminating the digital gender divide to work every day in places around the world. In this episode of our Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Eddie Pate will talk with Revi about her time at Microsoft, how the seed for what she’s doing today was planted there, and the impact she’s having from a socioeconomic, cultural, policy and financial-inclusion perspective.
2021-01-2139 min
Pulse on the PrinciplesS3 E2: Neither Seen Nor Heard: Tackling the Digital Gender DivideDigital technologies have become a common reality, changing the way we use information, making inclusion more important than ever. Yet, women still fall behind in participating in the digital revolution and remain largely invisible in international development datasets. Host Laura Walker McDonald examines causes and consequences of the digital gender divide and gender data gaps with guests Dr. Revi Sterling (USAID), Naomi Naik (GirlUp), and Professor Mmaki Jantjies (University of the Western Cape) and solutions to tackling gender inequalities.
2020-11-2545 min
Women AriseThe Gender Digital DivideIn this episode, Women Arise founder Neelley Hicks talks with Revi Sterling, PhD., director of the USAID W-GDP WomenConnect Challenge. The Challenge addresses the social norms that keep women and girls offline and focuses on the use of technology to create new social norms that empower women. Before the WomenConnect Challenge, Revi was Chief of Party at NetHope and directed the Women and the Web Alliance, a private public partnership with USAID, Intel, NetHope, World Vision, World Pulse, and UN Women. Prior to these positions, Revi founded and directed the first Information and Communications Technology for Development...
2020-05-2143 min