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What impact will AI have on gender equality?

Digital Governance

What impact will AI have on gender equality?

At the current rate of progress toward gender equality, the World Economic Forum estimates it will take 131 years for women to attain parity in income, status, and leadership. While technology is a powerful tool to help close the gender gap, it can also be weaponized.

No internet, no education, says Vickie Robinson

No internet, no education, says Vickie Robinson

The pandemic accelerated the shift to digital. But that left behind those offline, widening the digital access gap — with big implications for education. Vickie Robinson, general manager of Microsoft's Airband Initiative, recalls how she dealt with school closing as a mother. Having in-home connectivity helped her children transition from middle to high school with some sense of normalcy. But two-thirds of school-aged kids around the world didn't have that opportunity, she says during a Global Stage livestream conversation.

How to get students back on track after the Great Education Disruption

Crisis Recovery

How to get students back on track after the Great Education Disruption

As the 77th UN General Assembly gets underway, a look at how the pandemic wiped out years of progress on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. COVID disrupted the lives of some 1.6 billion students around the world. How can we get education back on track before it's too late? Experts weighed in during the Global Stage livestream conversation "Transforming Education" hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with Microsoft.

Is global economic inequality getting worse?

Crisis Recovery

Is global economic inequality getting worse?

What's happening in Ukraine has undone much of the momentum for narrowing the equality gap created during the pandemic, said Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, during a Global Stage livestream conversation hosted by GZERO in partnership with Microsoft. The event was held on site at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, while the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund held their annual spring meetings.

“Live from Washington, DC – Financing the Future” | Global Stage | Thu, April 21, 2022 | 3:30 pm ET/ 12:30 pm PT

Join us for our Global Stage event live from Washington DC

WATCH : Today at 3:30 pm ET, GZERO Media streamed from the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC to discuss "Financing the Future" as part of our Global Stage series. Moderator Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve reporter at The New York Times, leads the conversation with Eurasia Group and GZERO Media president Ian Bremmer, World Bank president David Malpass, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, and Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, Egypt.

Should internet be free for everyone? A Global Stage debate

Should internet be free for everyone? A Global Stage debate

Providing more than three billion people with affordable, reliable internet access sounds like a no-brainer, but the devil is in the details. Who'll pay for it and how do we measure success? Several experts weighed in during a Global Stage virtual conversation hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with Microsoft during the 76th UN General Assembly.