State mulls revival of digital villages project

The Government is moving to reduce gender disparity in the country’s IT labour market, in a move meant to see more women participate in the Sh50 billion sector.

This follows a new study that revealed gross disparities between women’s access to and use of the Internet compared to that of their male counterparts. The size of the gap is largest in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of men online is close to twice that of women skewing the access and allocation of ICT jobs.