
Partners
About EQUALS Partnership
EQUALS Partners play a valuable role in achieving digital gender equality. Each partner lends its own expertise, knowledge and capacity to this innovative movement – coordinated through a global action plan that leverages partners’ strengths.
Our partners include organizations from civil society, academic institutions, international organizations, private sector companies and governments. We are not able to accept individuals as partners at this time.
If your organization wishes to join EQUALS, you will be joining a growing network of global leaders who:
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Pledge to collaborate with other partners on the EQUALS Action Agenda to achieve for tech gender equality;
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Commit to specific, measurable action to bridge the gender digital divide;
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Promote the work of EQUALS by advocating within and outside of their organizations for gender digital equality; and
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Share knowledge that supports this important movement.
Your organization’s contribution to the EQUALS partnership can include:
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Strengthening global data collection, reporting and sharing on tech gender equality issues;
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Using big data to guide smart investments in women’s tech access, skills, roles;
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Volunteering staff resources – technical, marketing, communication, research, etc.;
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Joining an EQUALS Coalition to make progress and implement core activities; and
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Donating or contributing work to scale-up the critical efforts of the EQUALS Global Partnership.
Contact us at EQUALS@itu.int to inquire about partnership.
Meet Our Partners
Steering Committee:
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY
UNU contributes, through research and education, to efforts to resolve pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare.
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
ITU is the United Nations' specialized agency for information and communication technology, with 193 Member States and a membership of nearly 800 private sector entities and academic institutions. ITU is committed to connecting the world's unconnected.
UN WOMEN
UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential.
GSMA
The GSMA is a trade body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE
ITC is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION*
UNESCO seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences and culture.

INTERNET SOCIETY*
The Internet Society supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.
DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ)*
GIZ works to shape a future worth living around the world.
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (BMZ)*
*COALITION LEAD
*FUNDING PARTNER
Partners:

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
BERKMAN KLEIN
CENTER

BPW INTERNATIONAL

CENTER FOR GENDER EQUITY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

BRITISH
TELECOMMUNICATIONS

ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE INTERNET

CARIBBEAN GIRLS HACK

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOBRE AS TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO E DA COMUNICAÇÃO

CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
FUNDACIÓN BBVA MICROFINANZAS

GOVERNMENT OF BULGARIA

GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA

I AM THE CODE

GOVERNMENT OF BURUNDI
MINISTRY OF YOUTH, POST AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA

LATIN AMERICA POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (FLACSO)
DIGITAL ASIA HUB

GIRL DEVELOP IT

GOVERNMENT OF COSTA RICA

GOVERNMENT OF SWITZERLAND

LIRNEASIA

GIRL EFFECT

GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA
SECRETARIAT OF MODERNIZATION

GOVERNMENT OF GHANA

IOTASK

MOZILLA FOUNDATION
PLAN INTERNATIONAL

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

RESEARCH ICT AFRICA

TRICKLE UP

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
UNICEF

UNIVERSITY OF MACAU

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

VERIZON

THE WORLD BANK
