Policy Brief: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide in Africa African Heads of States and Governments gather in Addis Ababa for the 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union at a time when the continent faces a huge digital divide. African women are disproportionately affected by this divide. The Summit’s theme “Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development” is therefore quite pertinent. However, deliberations on the theme without explicit focus on women’s access to these technologies will overlook a critical aspect of Africa’s development. The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) urges national delegations to ensure that decisions taken in this Summit do not ignore women’s specific experiences to-date, and adopt specific measures to advance women’s access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) going forward. This policy brief examines the gender-differentiated impact of ICTs in Africa, and makes seventeen key recommendations to national delegations, and private and civil society organizations. Click here to read the POLICY BRIEF .