<div><br></div><div><a href="http://youtu.be/m2yjsHT7UoY">http://youtu.be/m2yjsHT7UoY</a></div><div><br></div>Ms Davis appealed to the Commission to set up a special focus group on gender that would undertake research on the many ways broadband networks and technologies could be used to empower girls and women -- for example, through access to education, health care and useful information such as farming advice, climate monitoring and commodity prices, but also as tools to foster female entrepreneurship and new business opportunities.<br>
"Broadband is having a transformational impact on the media and entertainment industry, but its importance reaches much further than that...Broadband will be key to meeting the Millennium Development Goals, providing women with the means to educate themselves and their children; improve their own health and the health of their families and communities; start their own businesses; keep themselves safe; and innovate to build and shape the future they want. This Commission can play a powerful advocacy role by speaking out strongly for the greater engagement of girls and women in the digital revolution taking place all around us," said Ms Davis.<br>
<br>Her call to action was enthusiastically received by the Commission which immediately agreed to establish a special working group on gender and technology with a specific focus on how to better engage and empower girls. The working group will be headed by Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. It received a spontaneous donation of USD 1 million from Commissioner Reza Jafari, with several members of the commission agreeing to prepare a special report on opportunities and barriers for girls and women, to be presented at the next meeting of the Commission in Mexico City in March 2013.<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:14.399999618530273px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)">
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