Iffat Gill is the founder of The Code To Change, an innovative initiative to bridge the gender and e-skills gap in the technology industry.
Iffat is an accomplished international NGO leader-activist, social innovator and digital strategist working on gender equality and economic empowerment of women through digital inclusion. With more than 14 years of experience in the non-profit sector, Iffat founded ChunriChoupaal as a training and capacity building initiative for the social and economic empowerment of women in remote areas of the world.
Iffat has been at the forefront of shaping the policy debate of women’s digital inclusion for close to a decade at grassroots and international level. She has advocated for the issue at the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society-WSIS Forum, the UN’s Internet Governance Forum and the European Parliament.
Her project Community Technology Center for Women in Pakistan won the Syster's Award from the Anita Borg Institute.
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