Poverty Alleviation and Women's Empowerment When Women Use Tech

Elaine Chang

ABSTRACT

It was with that in mind that Zita Akwero, Village Enterprise’s Uganda Regional Manager, highlighted (during a recent webinar to recognize International Women’s Day) how TaroWorks’ offline mobile field service app, Salesforce.com and the data they collect and analyze are helping empower both the women hired by Village Enterprise to act as business mentors and women in the poverty alleviation program who the mentors train and advise. Zita exemplifies how women can advance by acquiring technology and data skills, having started out as a business mentor herself who learned how to successfully use Salesforce dashboards to plan her daily tasks. Now, she’s managing teams of business mentors for an entire region and is enabling them to use technology and data.