In her keynote address this morning at the United Nations International Women’s Day observance, DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality observance, Doreen Bogdan-Martin described how times are changing, highlighting personal stories of women and girls around the world:

• Vidia, a young woman in India is helping thousands of visually-impaired students, mostly girls, to develop technology skills to pursue science, technology, and math
• Helen, a Brazilian young woman, uses drones to photograph shifting vegetation patterns. Helen belongs to the Pankararu indigenous peoples and is working to fight climate change and save her people’s land.

In a field dominated by men, Doreen Bogdan-Martin is the first woman in 158 years to be elected by member nations as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).