The Digital Divide

The Digital Divide at a Glance:

200 million more men have access to the Internet than women..ITU

41% of men worldwide are connected to the Internet, compared to 37% of women...ITU

Bringing 600 million additional women and girls online could boost global GDP by up to US$13-18 billion.... Intel

Women worldwide are an estimated 21% less likely to own a mobile phone..GSMA

In Francophone West Africa, women have 35% fewer opportunities and benefits than
men with regard to ICT...Nancy Hafkin

Men in West Africa tended to feel threatened when women used cell phones and accessed the Internet, seeing it as destabilizing to relationships and viewed such unsupervised activity by women as inappropriate...Nancy Hafkin

Less than 10% of the Internet users in Guinea and Djibouti are women, less than 20% in Nepal, and less than 25% in India....Nancy Hafkin

Source: worldpulse.com