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INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY 2020
economic barriers, differences through training and access to
between rural and urban areas credit can change their lives.
and, gender inequalities.
6. Clean Water and
2030-Vision states that
Sanitation
technology supports the
creation of labor immersion According to the ITU,
experiences and construction technologies are especially
of bridges between the significant for an intelligent
school and the workplace. water, sanitation, and hygiene
Fundación Personas y management. For 2030-Vision,
Empresas concluded that massive access to information,
poor children and youth that thanks to the ICTs, has allowed
live in remote areas will access for the population to have a
quality education. better use of water and be
more conscious.
5. Gender Equality
7. Affordable and Clean
ICT provide opportunities for
Energy
the economic empowerment Technology and energy
of women, creating business efficiency can connect in two
and labor opportunities, ways: “greening ICTs” and
according to the ITU. Online “greening through the ICTs”.
presence as well as the boom In the first case, the ICTs are
of technologies facilitate transforming to become
the visibility of women- more respectful with the
led business ventures, as environment. In the second
stated by 2030-Vision. case, the solutions provided
The Fundación Personas y by the ICT (for example, smart
Empresas points out that grids and buildings) contribute
women’s empowerment
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