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International Women’s Day 2023 “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.

The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. This theme is aligned with the priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”.
The United Nations Observance of IWD recognizes and celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. IWD 2023 will explore the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social inequalities. The event will also spotlight the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls in digital spaces and addressing online and ICT-facilitated gender-based violence.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Digital Health, adopted in 2020 by the World Health Assembly, presents a roadmap to link the latest developments in innovation and digital health, and put these tools to action in order to improve health outcomes. Part of WHO’s strategic vision is for digital health to be supportive of equitable and universal access to quality health services. Digital health can help make health systems more efficient and sustainable, enabling them to deliver good quality, affordable and equitable care.
Additionally, under PAHO's leadership, the Region of the Americas was the first region to approve the Resolution CD59/6 - Roadmap for the Digital Transformation of the Health Sector in the Region of the Americas to accelerate the processes of digital transformation of the health sector in all countries and territories of the continent, and since 2020 has been promoting the positioning of women leaders in digital health.

Mar 8, 2023 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)