Making the Connection: How Internet Access Couple Help Lift Women and Girls Out of Poverty

In this report, ONE calls for an action plan to connect those 350 million women and girls in the least developed countries by 2020. Doing so would have significant benefits for everyone.

This report outlines the challenges girls and women face in accessing the Internet and proposes policy recommendations to close the gap, particularly in LDCs. If national governments, donor governments, civil society and the private sector pull together, we can meet this target. If not, we will miss a golden opportunity to help millions of people lift themselves out of poverty and ensure they are not left behind in the global transition to a digital economy especially women and girls.

Four recommendations:

1. Invest in Digital Skills Revolution
2. Break Down Barriers to Accessing the Internet
3. Invest in Open data on Connectivity
4. Build Infrastructure for the Digital Future