Devex: Article covered the launch of the Women in Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF), a new five-year, $60.5 million investment to tackle the gender digital divide, founded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. CARE among the WiDEF consortium partners. CARE’s vice president of U.S. programs and policy advocacy, Ritu Sharma, who emceed the launch event, was quoted in the piece.
“We all know in this room that when you put money in the hands of a woman, good things happen,” said Ritu Sharma, vice president of U.S. programs and policy advocacy at CARE. “We want to put digital access in the hands of girls, and amazing things will happen.”
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