Web penetration charges in Ghana proceed to enhance and in consequence, many extra Ghanaians have been linked to huge alternatives and information sources on-line. Nevertheless, a big inhabitants of girls in Ghana stay offline as a consequence of elements corresponding to gendered mis/disinformation, harassment and insufficient digital know-how which has resulted within the additional deepening of the already-existing digital divide.
The MFWA, in its bid to contribute to stakeholder efforts aimed toward addressing this problem, and empower ladies to make use of the web to say their rights, and in addition benefit from the quite a few alternatives on-line, is organizing a Nationwide Stakeholders’ Discussion board on Ladies’s Rights On-line in Ghana.
The discussion board might be a one-day occasion which can come off on November 28, 2023, on the Sunlodge Resort in Accra.
It’s going to convey collectively stakeholders from authorities, ladies’s rights teams and civil society, together with activists, lecturers, media practitioners and members of most of the people.
The discussion board will give attention to how stakeholders can collaborate and use proactive actions to cut back and stop the amplification of gendered disinformation, and promote ladies’s rights on-line in Ghana.
The discussion board on ladies’s rights on-line in Ghana is being organized with funding from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana.
