Since 2012, Indosat Ooredoo’s women’s empowerment programme, INSPERA has benefited thousands of underprivileged women, female students, teachers and programming developers, by providing them with access to education, health service and economic empowerment powered by their leadership in digital technology. Empowering them to grow their businesses will reduce poverty and aid the country’s economic growth.”īesides benefiting customers through better products and services, many of Indosat Ooredoo’s social initiatives helped to empower the Indonesian society at large, including women and girls. We need more women to adapt to mobile financial services in the country. "We also believe that Tigo Cash will enable women entrepreneurs to experience the benefits of mobile financial services – providing Digital and Financial Inclusion. We believe in empowering Ghanaian women, and through the Connected Women initiative, we will be supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality. “Since the 2011 launch, our award-winning mobile money wallet, Tigo Cash, has made a significant contribution to Ghanaians, mostly the unbanked and SMEs. Connected Women Commitment Partners 2020 – 2023ġ9 organisations have made or extended their Commitment to improve digital and/or financial inclusion for women:Īs part of the GSMA’s Connected Women Commitment Initiative, AirtelTigo Ghana has committed to continue empowering women in Ghana by extending their Commitment to increase the proportion of women in their mobile money customer base. Mobile operators are driving an effort, with support from the Connected Women team, to reduce the gender gap in mobile internet and mobile money services by making formal Commitments to increase the proportion of women in their mobile internet and/or mobile money service customer base.
When women thrive, societies, businesses and economies thrive. We estimate that closing the gender gap in access and use could generate a revenue increase for the mobile industry of 12 to 37% in a typical low- and middle-income market in Africa, and 11 to 54% in Asia.
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These significant gender gaps are preventing women from reaping the full benefits of mobile technology.Ĭlosing the mobile gender gap is critically important and can deliver significant socio-economic benefits to underserved women, their communities and the economy. Across low- and middle-income countries women are 7% less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 16% less likely to use mobile internet, and 33% less likely to use mobile money.
In an increasingly connected world, women are being left behind. GSMA Connected Women Commitment Initiative Mobile operators are working to reduce the gender gap in mobile internet and mobile money services
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