The world was changing rapidly before the global pandemic showed how wide the digital divide is, on many fronts. Post-pandemic, the world will completely change and technology won’t be a driver of economic growth, it will be an enabler of participation in economic activity.

Africa has an opportunity to use the basis of the global crisis to gain traction and close the gender digital divide. The pandemic has shown the structure, processes, and factors of work can be done in more ways than one – meaning that women can have more access to decent employment, while being primary child-care providers, or being able to be entrepreneurs without much capital or cost of business set-up or movement. Access to technology also completely changes the game into access to education and the capacity of education to change the economic status of women and girls across Africa, allowing African women to have access to the global economy and be able to participate in it.