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The digital divide is a major global inequality shaped by access, affordability, and digital skills. Corporations play a key role in either widening or bridging this gap through their infrastructure, pricing, and inclusion efforts. The internet is no longer a convenience. It is an infrastructure. Access to digital connectivity determines whether a person can apply…
The anti-ESG backlash is weakening accountability systems and cutting funding for gender-focused programmes globally. As ESG rollbacks and aid reductions grow, women are disproportionately bearing the impact, slowing progress on equality. Trump-era ESG rollbacks and global aid cuts are hitting gender programmes hardest. The UN has the numbers. The corporate sector is looking the other…
This article explores how the collaboration between UNESCO and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology aims to make AI more inclusive in India. It highlights the urgent need to address data bias and ensure rural and informal workers are represented in digital systems. The Woman the Data Never Counted There is a woman in…
The WHO’s “AI for All” framework highlights the urgent need to eliminate bias in healthcare AI and ensure equitable, inclusive technology for underserved populations worldwide. Global Health & Technology I Social Development There is a village in rural Bihar, India, where the nearest physician is 40 kilometers away. A child develops a fever at midnight….
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed 1.5 million schools in India, impacting almost 250 million students, online learning did not appear to be just an answer but a turning point in history. For the very first time, talk of “Digital India” in education was no longer wishful talk; it was a requirement. But five years down…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Oct 08, 2025 09:45 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The Gender Snapshot 2025 feels less like a lookback and more like a moment of reckoning: as we head into the final five years before the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report…
