Today's newest technologies and innovations have the power to impact the lives of millions of women in the developing world, if we do it right. It will not be enough to focus on granting access to new technologies, be it through access to a computer, the internet, smartphones, tablets, or the cloud. Instead, we must focus on making women from around the world equal contributors to IT knowledge and the IT economy.
By harnessing the power of today's innovations, we can do just this, bring women from developing countries in to the mainstream conversation. Further, by combining new technologies with a market-based approach to development, we can ensure an ongoing economic empowerment that will affect generations to come.
At iMerit centers in India, refugees, rural & minority women all have the opportunity to work on projects involving machine learning, data analytics, mobile & cloud technologies, e-commerce, and more. By integrating these new technologies - which, at first glance may seem to fall beyond the capacities of employment of women in developing countries - in to our employment model, we are building a bridge between Silicon Valley and India. We are ensuring that these women have applicable skills for the new economy. We are creating a system wherein these women are not long-term beneficiaries, but instead are service providers, and contributors to the global economy.
This integration of not only access to new technologies, but full participation in the economies and knowledge surrounding them, seeks to create a world in which employees like our refugee women in Delhi are equal shareholders in the most cutting-edge technologies around the world.
