At the Clinton Global Initiative annual summit last week a new program was launched called Technologies to Improve Women’s Economic Livelihoods, which aims to “help identify and deploy technologies and innovations that can improve quality of life and enable women to participate more fully in income-generating activities.”

The $1.5 million dollar program is sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corporation, Ashoka’s Changemakers, a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).

Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka’s Changemakers, said, “We have seen what individuals can do to engineer change in their communities. This collaborative search will help us see how technology innovations for women can be part of the solution to global poverty.”

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