AfricaFocus Bulletin
New research from the World Wide Web Foundation reveals new details about the enduring digital gender gap in Africa\’s urban cities, despite the unprecedented expansion of access to mobile phones among women as well as men. In poor neighborhoods of six African cities, the study shows, \”women are almost as likely as men to own a mobile phone of their own, but they are a third less likely than men of similar age, education level and economic status to use their phones to access the Internet. \” The cities included were Lagos, Nairobi, Maputo, Kampala, Yaounde, and Cairo. Read more