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Daring to Shift: Youth Voices on Empowerment and Digital Leadership
Sabine Iradukunda Uwase never planned to be a facilitator. As a child, “I stuttered,” she says. “I avoided every situation where I had to stand in front of people and speak.” When she got to college, she studied agro-forestry and dreamed of working with farmers in her home country of Rwanda on sustainable agriculture […]
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) and the Mastercard Foundation to Support 40 Youth-Led Organizations and 300,000 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Business Owners
OTTAWA, Canada, July 12, 2023 — Digital Opportunity Trust and the Mastercard Foundation are partnering to support over 300,000 young women and men to gain relevant entrepreneurial skills and foster a network ecosystem of support for young leaders. The “Going Beyond – Partnering for a Youth-Led Future” project aims to scale DOT’s evidence-based, peer-to-peer model […]
DOT and the Cisco Foundation Announce a Partnership to Develop a Youth-led Response to the Global Climate Challenge
DOT and the Cisco Foundation announce a partnership to develop a youth-led response to the global climate challenge Responding to the calls to action from youth within DOT’s network across Africa and the Middle East – young people who are living through some of the worst impacts of the climate emergency – Digital Opportunity Trust […]
DOT and Na’amal Announce Digital Livelihoods in Ethiopia in Partnership with the Conrad Hilton Foundation
April 18, 2023 The number of displaced persons has more than doubled in the last ten years alone, now there are more than 89.3 million displaced people around the world, and the tragedy doesn’t end there. According the the UNHCR Global Trends Report, forced displacement will exceed 100 million people as political conflicts intensify, and […]
DOT Lebanon: Empowering Communities Online
In the middle of the Levant falls a small country with plenty of challenges. Lebanon, one of the smallest countries in the Middle East and the world, is the host of the largest number of refugees per capita. The government estimates Lebanon is home to 1.5 million Syrian refugees and around 14,815 refugees of other […]
Digital Skills for Business to Bridge the Gender Digital Divide
Known as the “land of a thousand hills”, Rwanda is one of the continent’s smallest nations, and boasts a youthful population – the median age in Rwanda is 20. Rwanda is asserting itself as a major information and technology hub, as part of the country’s ambitious plan to become an industrial and technological service centre […]
DOT at CSW67: Creating Enabling Environments for Young Women
March 6, 2023 Progress towards gender equality is looking bleak – in recent years, the number of employed women globally has declined, over 400 million women and girls continue to live in extreme poverty, and food insecurity levels are 10% higher for women. Young women and girls also continue to face limited access to digital […]
Progress Loading – On the way to 4 Million Lives by 2025
February 9, 2023 Our ways of living, working, and learning are deeply ingrained with technology, and many have been forced into digital transformation. Yet, the digital economy’s potential is not equally distributed. Digital literacy, usability, affordability, and accessibility are among the many barriers preventing dignified participation in the global economy. In 2022, DOT announced a […]
Support #DOTYouth To Thrive in An Inclusive Digital Economy
For 20 years, DOT has been working towards a vision where all underserved and disadvantaged young women and men realize their potential in an inclusive digital economy. An early adopter of ICT for Development as an international development construct, DOT has been equipping young women and men with the skills and networks to leverage technology […]
DOT Headlines Launch Event for Univeristy of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management 7th Annual MBA Diversity and Inclusion Case Challenge
Attended by MBA students from across Canada, Elizabeth Mengesha and Shila Ukumbini Salim headlined the launch event to kick off Telfer’s 2022/2023 MBA Diversity and Inclusion Case Challenge on November 19th. The theme this year is climate action. Speaking in the plenary session, Elizabeth, the Deputy Director of Operations at DOT who oversees DOT’s global […]