Digital Divide

REACT Framework

Countries can close the digital gender gap by focusing on Rights, Education, Access, Content, and Targets (REACT): protecting online rights, improving education, ensuring affordable access, providing empowering content, and setting measurable gender equity targets.

Closing the digital gender gap for a more equal world

This report provides a global snapshot of the state of digital gender inequality and finds that even where women are closing the gap on basic internet access, they face a multitude of additional barriers to using the internet and fully participating online.

Digital Gender Gap Audit Scorecards

Our Digital Gender Gap Audit project assesses the policy efforts and progress made on a national level around the main challenges preventing the closure of a formidable gender gap in internet access, digital skills, and online rights.

Policy Guidance

Gender and ICT Policy Playbook

This Playbook draws from the experience and learnings from the work of World Wide Web Foundation and the WRO Network in advocating for gender-responsive ICT Policy.

Locally Responsive Data

Developing clear and agreed definitions informed by the Global Majority in order to accurately assess  the severity of OGBV, and encourage global cooperation to enforce measures against it.

Products

Tech Policy Design Playbook

Tech Policy Design Labs unite governments, companies, and civil society to collaboratively use human-centered design for creating tech-related policies, processes, or products that uphold human rights with measurable and accountable commitments.

Malicious Flagging

Using the Tech Policy Design Lab Playbook to co-design platform governance policies and counter malicious flagging

Develop Tools for Evaluation and Accreditation

A tool based on the Trusted Design Norms to assess the adherence to and impact of Trusted Design, as well as serve as the basis for regulations.

Research

Research Inventory

Studies and reports on OGBV shared by research partners and other organizations working in this sector, with a particular focus on the Global Majority.

Gaps in Research and Advocacy

This short report, Advancing Women’s Rights Online: Gaps and Opportunities in Research and Advocacy, looks at the data and research we need — but are missing — to meaningfully monitor progress toward improving women’s internet access and use.

Perpetrator Research

Investigating the drivers of perpetrators, their attack patterns, and how to mitigate their influence.