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Mediterranean Women Digital Summit

From 7-8 September the KAS Regional Program brought together over 50 participants from 13 countries of the wider Mediterranean region for the first Mediterranean Women Digital Summit in Tunis. Held under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Republic of Tunisia and in cooperation with Global Project Partners (GPP), the summit was the first platform of its kind to discuss the changes and opportunities that unfold in the Southern Mediterranean regarding women entrepreneurship and digital transformation and set the stage for future collaboration in the field of women and digitalization.

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The first Mediterranean Women Digital Summit, which took place from 7 to 8 September in Tunis, presented the launch of an annual platform for selected women activists, influencers and entrepreneurs leading the digital transformation of their countries' economies and societies.

The event was designed to highlight the wide-ranging opportunities available for women in the 21st century through digitalization. To this end, the summit included relevant stakeholders to discuss how to best capitalize on digitalization for women in order to develop the region's governance, business, funding and talent. The event successfully brought together over 50 participants from diverse backgrounds such as academia, business and the start-up scene, and included experts of the health, mobility, finance and assets sectors. The Regional Program welcomed participants and speakers from the broader Mediterranean region and Europe including Algeria, the Arab Emirates, Egypt, France, Germany, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Netherlands, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Tunisia.

During two days, a selection of keynote speeches, testimonials, presentations and workshops revolved around the theme of the impact of digitalization on women entrepreneurship. The participants could deepen their knowledge of digitalization and its possibilities and could bring concrete expectations, fears and possible challenges regarding the participation of women in the digitalization process in the Mediterranean region into a superregional discussion. International business experts, entrepreneurs and academics from the region as well as from Europe raised awareness of opportunities for women through digitalization and discussed a possible prioritization of actions in this area. The summit thus offered a unique platform for collaboration and innovation while sharing strategies and identifying and mapping out the opportunities for women offered in the digital age.

As an outcome of the summit, a Joint Declaration of the Mediterranean Women Digital Summit was published, which indicates action recommendations and innovative approaches.

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