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LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:Gender gaps and digital solutions. Launch of UNCTAD Policy Review: 
 E-commerce from a gender and development perspective
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DESCRIPTION:Digitalization has the potential to improve productivity\, sust
 ainability\, and resilience in many economic sectors.\n\nDigital technolog
 ies can expand access to information and to new market opportunities and f
 acilitate the integration of small entrepreneurs into domestic and regiona
 l value chains.\n\nThe potential of digital technologies for enhanced prod
 uctivity and trade is\, however\, limited by gender gaps in technology ado
 ption and use. UNCTAD has explored the benefits but also the challenges of
  e-commerce for women-led small enterprises in developing and least develo
 ped countries in its new policy review\, E-commerce from a gender and deve
 lopment perspective.\n\nThe launch of the publication will provide the opp
 ortunity for a panel discussion.\n\n\nWhat are the desirable interventions
  to guarantee that the benefits of digital technologies are equally shared
  and are gender-inclusive?\n \nWhat kind of digital platforms are more ad
 apted to women&#039\;s business?\n \nIs there any similarity between the 
 debate on trade and gender and the one of digitalization and gender?\n \n
 What are the promising initiatives in this field? What role should UNCTAD 
 play?\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\nH.E. Mrs. Sofia Boza Martinez\, Ambassador\, Pe
 rmanent Representative\, Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Org
 anization (WTO)\nMs. Trudi Hartzenberg\, Executive Director\, tralac\nMs. 
 Anita Gurumurthy\, Executive Director\, IT for Change\nMr. Christian Volpe
  Martincus\, Principal Economist\, Integration and Trade Sector\, Inter-Am
 erican Development Bank (IDB)\nMs. Simonetta Zarrilli\, Chief\, Trade\, Ge
 nder and Development Programme\, DITC\, UNCTAD\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\nMs. Ca
 itlin Kraft-Buchman\, CEO / Founder\, Women at the Table\n\n\n \nhttps://
 unctad.org/publication/e-commerce-gender-and-development-perspective\n\nVi
 ew meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/gender-gaps-and-digit
 al-solutions-launch-unctad-policy-review-e-commerce-gender-and
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