With so many initiatives aiming to bridge the gender gap within the technology sector, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the fact that it all feels familiar: coding workshops and weekend bootcamps repetitively encouraging girls to pick STEM subjects and empathy-driven corporate social responsibility projects. While every initiative has taken a stab at improving diversity issues from the ground up, the fact remains that women are still underrepresented in tech globally.

The African divide is even bigger. In 2012, a study funded by Intel found that women in developing countries are nearly 25% less likely to be online than men. The gap in some areas of the world was even higher – Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, stopped at 43%.