What do women’s rights have to do with the SDGs and the internet?

Women are not a homogenous group and our access to technology is also affected by a number of other factors such as age, class, caste, race, ethnicity, income, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, abilities, urban or rural locality, etc. Therefore, we have to overcome multiple discriminations in order to gain access.

These include, but are not limited to, the high cost of devices, the high cost of connectivity, lack of infrastructure, cultural and religious restrictions, geographical location, language barriers, etc It is time we expand the discourse around internet governance to move “beyond the narrow subjects of protocols, names and numbers into areas related to social impact and rights”.

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