The Budapest IWD Centenary Declaration 2011 In Support of a Gender Action Plan for the Digital Agenda

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The Joint High-level Confe­rence «Women in Science, Inno­va­tion and Tech­no­logy in the Digi­tal Age» orga­ni­zed by the Euro­pean Commis­si­on’s Direc­to­rate-Gene­ral for Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety and Media and the Hunga­rian EU Presi­dency was held in Buda­pest on 6–8th of March 2011 marking the 100th Anni­ver­sary of Inter­na­ti­o­nal Womens’ Day.

I. We, the 261 parti­ci­pants[1] from 26 coun­tries repre­sen­ting key public, private actors, acade­mia and NGOs from Europe, as well as the Euro­pean Commis­sion, ILO, UNESCO, UNECE and the World Bank agree that getting more women into science, inno­va­tion and tech­no­logy is not just an issue of social justice, but an econo­mic neces­sity, a key tool for econo­mic growth and compe­ti­ti­ve­ness.
II. We recog­nize the rele­vance of Arti­cle 42 of the Buda­pest Decla­ra­tion on science and the use of scien­ti­fic know­ledge adop­ted by the UNESCO/ICSU World Confe­rence on Science (1999), the conclu­si­ons of the review of the Beijing Decla­ra­ti­on+15, the ITF Decla­ra­tion of Agre­e­ment in Support of Girls and Women in Infor­ma­tion and Commu­ni­ca­tion Tech­no­logy(2008), the Decla­ra­tion of the Spanish EU Presi­dency Confe­rence SheLe­a­der 2.0 (2010) and the conclu­si­ons of the 55th session of the United Nati­on’s Commis­sion on the Status of Women on Access and Parti­ci­pa­tion of Women and Girls in educa­tion, trai­ning, science and tech­no­logy (2011).
III. We aspire to a vision whereby Euro­pean govern­ments, busi­nes­ses, acade­mia and NGOs align in multi-stake­hol­der plat­forms to acti­vely support girls’ and women’s parti­ci­pa­tion in the on-going great trans­for­ma­tion and stra­te­gic para­digm-shift of the Digi­tal Age.
IV. We iden­tify our shared objec­ti­ves by 2020:

Girls and women are empo­we­red active parti­ci­pants of the know­ledge economy enabled by an envi­ron­ment ready to support gender mains­tre­a­ming in access, design and use of ICT in the areas of educa­tion, rese­arch and inno­va­tion, entre­pre­neurs­hip, work­force, leaders­hip and the media.
V. In view of the above, we recom­mend to the Euro­pean Parli­a­ment and the Euro­pean Commis­sion and all Euro­pean stake­hol­ders, espe­ci­ally all CEOs, board members and CIOs of ICT rela­ted indus­tries to support the adop­tion of a Gender Action Plan for the Digi­tal Agenda to secure that women can on equal terms join the Move­ment for Digi­tal Action and contri­bute to imple­men­ting the Digi­tal Agenda and the Europe 2020 Stra­tegy.
VI. We invite key actors in poli­tics and indus­tries inter­es­ted in measu­rably and signi­fi­cantly incre­a­sing the number of girls and women in science, inno­va­tion and tech­no­logy to support

 
  1. Acti­o­na­ble and sustai­na­ble projects and prac­ti­ces that advance, strengt­hen and promote tech­ni­cal and scien­ti­fic talents and skills;
  2. Flexi­ble acade­mic struc­tu­res and path­ways for new gender rela­ti­ons and scien­ti­fic care­ers;
  3. Educa­tion as a key instru­ment of getting more girls in STEM and closing the digi­tal gap via curri­cu­lar reforms in scho­ols and teachers’­trai­ning and suppor­ting early acqui­si­tion of Digi­tal Lite­racy, coaching of teachers and employees of STEM, and imple­men­ting better func­ti­o­ning systems for parents’ infor­ma­tion;
  4. Set targets for EU Member States on female entre­pre­neurs­hip inclu­ding members­hip on execu­tive and advi­sory boards, to enforce gender speci­fic aware­ness for exam­ple in tech­no­logy incu­ba­tors, in public and private finan­cing insti­tu­ti­ons;
  5. Enga­ge­ment in care­ers in STEM through mentors­hip, inter­ns­hip, recruit­ment, trans­pa­rency in career oppor­tu­ni­ties;
  6. Inte­gra­tion of gender in rese­arch and inno­va­tion proces­ses, incre­a­sing thereby the poten­tial for crea­ti­vity, new rese­arch content and user cente­red design;
  7. Crea­tion of posi­tive images through role models, aware­ness campaigns, media presence like TV program series, comics, video games and a joint 'Women­Tech Pavi­llon’ at World Expo 2015;
  8. Euro­pean level bench­mar­king, moni­to­ring and repor­ting through an annual 'Euro­pean Gender in Science, Inno­va­tion and Tech­no­logy Score­card’;
  9. Global colla­bo­ra­tion projects between EU, Africa, Asia-Paci­fic and Latin-America to support women’s entre­pre­neurs­hip in the Digi­tal Age.

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