Open Source for Equality - Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Through...
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Claim: open digital audio plus locally built open source tools by women closes the digital gender gap and advances SDG5. Projects include audiopedia (an audio content wiki), One FM (template web app), an augmented audio JS framework, qui‑fi hotspots, solar audio players and WhatsApp delivery. Surprising numbers: only 6% of contributors are women, 500 million women are illiterate, and the bread rule example allegedly costs >2,000 child deaths daily. Pilots in 14 countries (Uganda pilot: five local women building One FM in four languages) are deployed and in use.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:11Why Africa Leads the World in Teenage Pregnancies
- 5:38Link between between Women and Sustainable Development
- 6:57Women Spend 90 of Their Earned Income on Their Families while Men Spent Only 35 Percent
- 7:32The Gender Gap in Agriculture
- 11:06Principles for Digital Development
- 11:37Digital Public Goods
- 15:28Volunteering Is Often Unsustainable in the Global South
- 17:40Challenges of Cross-Cultural Communication
- 19:09Audipedia
- 22:36Open Source for Equality Initiative
- 31:41Achieving Gender Equality
- 34:51Trickle-Down Approach
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