Why Digital Skills?
As our daily lives move increasingly into the digital realm, it is clear that to be offline today is to be excluded. For this reason, it is more critical than ever that everyone — regardless of environment,gender, location or income — has the ability to access and use the internet. Unfortunately, the reality is that half the world is still offline, and the majority of those offline are rural communities mainly women.
Failure to close this digital divide — and the digital gender gap in particular — threatens to reinforce existing offline patterns of inequality and to undermine global economic growth and development. A myriad of challenges compound to keep rural communities from unlocking the true potential of ICTs, including the high cost to connect (particularly given that rural women, on average, earn less than men) to cultural barriers to online access and use.(https://www.tareo-tz.org/indusrial-polcy/)
