Reliance Foundation, USAID partner to bridge gender digital divide in India

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  Reliance Foundation, USAID partner to bridge gender digital divide in India

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Key point –   

1. Reliance Foundation has forged a new partnership with US Agency for International Development and W-GDP to bridge the gender digital divide in India.

Highlights – 

1. The W-GDP Women's Connect Challenge (WCC) supports private sector-led approaches that close the gender digital divide, expands business opportunities, and empowers women.
2. As part of programme, W-GDP will partner with the Reliance Foundation to create an India-specific expression of the WCC and incorporate the lessons of previous W-GDP WCC Rounds.
3. In 2016, Reliance launched Jio a tech ecosystem that has ushered in digital life for 1.3 billion Indians and delivered first-hand a pan-India digital revolution that has transformed lives in ways unimaginable before.
4. Today, Jio is the largest digital services company in India, and the second-largest in the world. As many as 120 million Jio users are women, and the number is growing rapidly.
5. This year Reliance Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and over the last decade has impacted the lives of 36 million Indians.
6. In February 2019, the White House established the Women's Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative, the first whole-of-government approach to women's economic empowerment.
7. W-GDP seeks to reach 50 million women in the developing world by 2025 by focusing on three pillars women prospering in the workforce, women succeeding as entrepreneurs, and women enabled in the economy.
8. W-GDP leverages a new innovative fund, scaling private-public partnerships that address the three pillars. In its first year alone, W-GDP programs reached 12 million women across the globe.

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