India to host panel discussion with focus on sharing good practices, experiences on women’s digital empowerment

The discussion will take place on the margins of the ongoing session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

With a focus on highlighting good practices and experiences by India on women’s digital empowerment. the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations will host a special discussion on leveraging public-private commitment for women’s access to technology.

India’s Permanent Mission will host a panel discussion on ‘Leveraging Public-Private Commitment for Women’s Greater Access to Technology and Education' on March 13 that will be moderated by Susan Ferguson, Country Representative, UN Women India. The discussion will take place on the margins of the ongoing session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

There will be speakers, including India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Anita Bhatia, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Dr. Sangita Reddy and Senior vice-president and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, LinkedIn Ms. Melissa Selcher among other experts.

The panel discussion aims to share good practices and experiences by India on women’s digital empowerment; share UN Women India’s strategic partnerships with the private sector, including through Business Sector Advisory Council in co-creating an enabling environment for women’s access to technology and education and explore opportunities for public-private partnerships to scale digital innovations to address the gender digital divide for women’s empowerment and gender equality, a concept note on the event said.

On margins of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of India will also co-host an India Roundtable on ‘Grassroots Leadership and Transformation: Charting the path of empowerment through technology and skill development’. It will also host an informal briefing on G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting and G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting that was held in India recently.

The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) commenced on March 6 and will run through March 17 at the UN Headquarters here in New York.

The priority theme of this year's CSW is 'Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls' while the review theme is 'Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.'