About the event
What is it about?
This webinar series is a platform to foster new partnerships and co-create knowledge on the gendered dimensions of digital technologies for health, with a focus on the translation of evidence to policy and practice-based learning in low- and middle-income countries.
The objectives of the Gender and Digital Health Webinar are:
- Discuss, reflect, and engage with contemporary topics at the intersection of gender, digital, and digital health;
- Bring to the forefront voices and perspectives that challenge the status quo to drive forward the agenda of tackling gender inequalities in digital interventions/services;
- Build a diverse, interdisciplinary, and multi-stakeholder community working in gender, digital, and global health;
- Disseminate findings and work produced by the digital, digital health, and gender communities, situating these within broader contexts to influence policy.
Who is part of it?
The Gender and Digital Health Webinar Series is organised by a consortium between UNU IIGH, The University of Cape Town and BBC Media Action. Each session is moderated and discussed by different guest speakers.
Series Outline
- What Does the Digital Gender Gap Mean for Healthcare? This webinar explores the digital gender gap and its implications for digital health solution design.
- Case studies in Government responses to the COVID19 pandemic: how has technology been used to address women’s health needs and what are the gaps? This webinar dissects the ways technology has been used to address women’s health needs and assess the gaps.
- Gender-based violence and technology during COVID19: This webinar explores the usage of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses South Africa and Mexico as case studies.
- What causes the digital gender gap? This webinar is a global discussion on the causes of the digital gender gap. It highlights conscious and unconscious biases, mitigating reputational risks among others.
- Digital literacy for women: definitions, measurement, theories of change and curriculums: This webinar discusses digital literacy for women. It looks into the definition, measurements, curriculum, and theories of change.
- Big data and AI for gender equity in health: This webinar discusses, among others, the gender-ness of IT systems and data digitisation on health systems inequities and improving gender statistics with big data.
- Gender and Phone Surveys: Methodological Considerations: This webinar discusses best practices on inclusive phone surveys and key lessons learned in making phone surveys gender inclusive, to ensure that women’s voices are heard.
- Social Media, Networks and Movements for Women’s Empowerment: This webinar discusses the challenges and opportunities for women’s empowerment in digital spaces, and the relationship between digital literacy and women’s empowerment.
- Designing process evaluations of digital health programs with a gender lens (Case studies from India): This webinar will provide an overview of what process evaluations are, and review learnings from three case studies in India which feature digital health solutions in use by or targeting women.