Melinda Gates pushes G7 to close digital gender gap in Africa
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor from Economics | The Guardian on (#4KCEF)
World leaders to back call to help rural poor and women access mobile banking
World leaders are to pledge to shape the technological revolution sweeping through Africa by acting to lift the threat of 400 million predominantly rural women being excluded from digital financial services.
G7 finance ministers meeting in France are to endorse a paper from the Gates Foundation saying there is a serious risk that digital technology and mobile banking will bypass millions of women in Africa, leaving them disempowered for a generation.
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