SDG 5.B: Promote Empowerment of Women Through Technology

“This article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the set of rules and practices that aims to define web accessibility. In this context, the word “accessibility”...

“Children and young people spend a lot of time nowadays connected to digital technology. To communicate, learn, work and play responsibly in this environment, they need to develop a whole range of competences that will enable them to harness the benefits and opportunities and overcome the pitfalls...

“The Community-Led Libraries Toolkit is designed for library staff fulfilling diverse roles - from those who serve the community directly at the circulation desk to those who plan services, develop policy, or manage library operations. The Toolkit provides background and contextual information, case...

“The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform decision makers, to give guidance to the international library community about children's needs and rights on information, literacy and reading and to help public libraries implement high quality children's services.”

“The report provides a deep dive into AHRC’s portfolio of nearly 100 heritage-based Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Newton Fund projects, providing analysis of how heritage research has, through a range of approaches and through increasing collaboration between researchers across high and...

“Science centers and museums have the ability to make a sizable impact on how gender is represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Each year an estimated 120 million people visit informal science education institutions, and it is important for museum visitors...

“These guidelines have three main purposes:

• to describe the nature of and the need for easy-to-read publications;
• to identify the main target groups for these publications; and
• to offer suggestions to publishers of easy-to-read materials and those organizations and agencies that serve...

“These Guidelines are presented by the IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Committee. The overall objective of IFLA FAIFE is “to raise awareness of the essential correlation between the library concept and the values of intellectual freedom” (IFLA FAIFE...

“The role that libraries in Africa could play in reducing poverty has not been sufficiently recognised and hence the necessary policy developments and investment in the library network have not yet been made. Policy makers and donors, recognising the link between poverty reduction and literacy, have...

“This toolkit of lesson plans and activities explores the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Gender Equality - through arts and culture. We will look at sustainable development stories from Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s international work, historical artefacts from the Aga Khan Museum’s...

“This report has three central purposes:

1) To provide a broad overview of libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa that disseminate HIV/AIDS information, including identifying the numbers and types of libraries as well as understanding the nature of libraries within the African context.

2) To explore the...

“Literacy and Information are fundamental prerequisites for both academic, social and economic prosperity and achievement. All over the world , the poor, marginalized and vulnerable people are subject to several discriminations and this is more common in developing countries”(Hoq, 2015).

⁠The...