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Closing the gender gap in digital, education, STEM and AI

Authors M. Mathipa-Mdakane
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2025
OUTPUT TYPE: Policy briefs
Print HSRC Library: shelf number 9815144
handle 20.500.11910/24449
Digital inclusion cannot advance without online safety. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and femicide (TFGBVF), including harassment, algorithmic discrimination, image-based abuse, and cyberstalking is escalating. Unless G20 nations embed digital safety across all policy domains, women and girls will continue to be silenced and excluded. This brief puts forward four recommendations for G20 governments under South Africaâ??s 2025 Presidency. Together, they combine economic rationale with a rights-based imperative, and position digital safety and TFGBVF prevention as the foundation for inclusive innovation.