House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Monday vowed to bring women empowerment to new heights by adopting a digital public infrastructure (DPI) in the Philippines.
House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Monday vowed to bring women empowerment to new heights by adopting a digital public infrastructure in the Philippines.
“Melinda French Gates also mentioned how important the digital public infrastructure is to women’s empowerment. DPI provides them access to capital and opportunities. It gives them dignity and respect and allows them to engage in more activities,” Romualdez said. The ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, French Gates has written about women empowerment and is an advocate of increasing the number of women technologists in the workplace, having seen first-hand how men dominate the field.
Digital public infrastructure is defined as infrastructure that allows people to engage in public and civic life in digital space. It is funded mostly by the government and taxpayers and is not profit-oriented, unlike privately owned digital platforms that rake in billions mostly from advertising. “Women empowerment has definitely worked in our collective favor in the House of Representatives. To see this replicated across all workplaces through the flywheel of digitalization, will make French Gates proud,” he said.
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