{"id":7103,"date":"2024-07-09T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:50:56","slug":"comunicato-congiunto-dei-membri-della-rete-international-gender-champions-igc-board-globale-sul-tema-del-global-digital-compact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2024\/07\/comunicato-congiunto-dei-membri-della-rete-international-gender-champions-igc-board-globale-sul-tema-del-global-digital-compact\/","title":{"rendered":"Comunicato Congiunto dei membri della rete International Gender Champions (IGC) &#8211; board globale, sul tema del Global Digital Compact"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"page-header\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header__title\">Statement by members of the International Gender Champions (IGC) Global Board on the Global Digital Compact<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<article id=\"post-308\" class=\"post-308 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news regions-geneva regions-international\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">The internet, digital platforms, information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer unprecedented pathways to increase women\u2019s participation across all spheres of life, enhance gender disaggregated data collection, advance gender-responsive standards, develop gender responsive public procurement policies and promote global collaboration in gender equality efforts.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Yet where there is opportunity, there is also risk. While the digital transformation bears vast potential to leapfrog progress towards SDG 5, the digital gender divide, persistent gender stereotypes, the under-representation of women in tech and decision making, significant gaps in digital literacy and a rise in technology-facilitated GBV also threaten to exacerbate existing inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Board of the International Gender Champions made\u00a0<strong>\u2018leveraging the potential of digital and new emerging technologies for gender equality\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0a strategic objective for the network in November 2023, building on the positive resonance of the IGC\u2019s \u2018I Say No To Sexism Online\u2019 Campaign and recent developments in the multilateral sphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Digital Compact, whose goal is to establish an inclusive global framework, is considered essential for the multi-stakeholder action required to overcome digital, data and innovation divides and widely accepted to be a once in a generation opportunity to address these issues. It is\u00a0expected to be adopted at the Summit of the Future in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Global Digital Compact presents an important occasion\u00a0to advance International Gender Champions\u2019 objectives by ensuring that gender perspectives and the goal of gender equality are a central component of this new digital governance framework.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As such, the Global Board supports the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications\/2024\/03\/placing-gender-equality-at-the-heart-of-the-global-digital-compact\">Position Paper<\/a>\u00a0prepared by UN Women, in collaboration with the Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality, which outlines a dual track approach:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<strong>The inclusion of a stand-alone goal on gender equality<\/strong>\u00a0that elevates three fundamental topics to be prioritized in every dimension of the Global Digital Compact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom from technology-facilitated gender-based violence and discrimination;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Equitable educational and economic opportunities; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Equal voice, leadership and participation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.\u00a0<strong>The robust mainstreaming of gender considerations across all parts of the framework<\/strong>.The Global Board invites members of the IGC network to support this approach by becoming signatories of this statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>IGC Global Board Members<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Chair of the IGC Global Board<\/em><\/p>\n<p>H.E. Mr. Hugh Adsett, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO and Co-Founder, Women at the Table<\/p>\n<p>H.E. Mr. J\u00fcrg Lauber, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN and other International Organisations in Geneva<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Philip Lynch, Director, International Service for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>H.E. Ms. Athaliah Molokomme, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Botswana to the UN and other International Organisations in Geneva<\/p>\n<p>H.E. Mr. Matthew Wilson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Barbados to the UN and other International Organisations in Geneva<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Roger Yates, Regional Director, East and Souther Africa and the Middle East, Plan International<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>International Gender Champions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr. Mohamed Al-Hassan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative,\u00a0Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations in New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr. Jamal Al Musharakh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Ms. Pascale Baeriswyl, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Alain D\u00e9l\u00e9troz, General Director, Geneva Call\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr. Tormod C. Endresen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Ms. Annika Markovic, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN and the international organisations in Vienna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr. Alexander Marschik, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>H.E. Mr. Maurizio Massari, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Corinne Momal-Vanian, Executive Director, Kofi Annan Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr. Fergal Mythen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations in New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Melissa Parke, Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Mr.\u00a0B\u00e5rd Ivar Svendsen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative,\u00a0Royal Norwegian Embassy The Hague<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>H.E. Ms. Nina Vaskunlahti, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy and Permanent Mission of Finland to the international organisations in Vienna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Adriana Qui\u00f1ones,\u00a0Head of Human Rights and Development, UN Women Liaison Office in Geneva<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statement by members of the International Gender Champions (IGC) Global Board on the Global Digital Compact The internet, digital platforms, information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer unprecedented pathways to increase women\u2019s participation across all spheres of life, enhance gender disaggregated data collection, advance gender-responsive standards, develop gender responsive public procurement policies [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-diritti-umani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}