Our community of Digital Sisters are closing the divide for women. Supporting them to be safely, confidently and affordably online helps our whole society to benefit from technology. We’re helping women keep up with tech changes, like AI.
Our Digital Sisters program brings together free local support and online learning opportunities. Organisations in our network partner with us to run programs for women on topics like AI, keeping kids safer online and essential digital skills.
Since 2023, we have supported over 4,500 migrant and refugee women to be safer and more confident online.
The Digital Sisters program is important to my community because we are from immigrant background.
Back there, we don’t have computers and we were in war running around in the bush. When we came here, everything was new. My community, some, they have no idea about digital literacy.
So now everything is changing. So they’re really eager to learn.
This is a program where we help women to overcome their struggles, for example, they don’t know how to use email when it comes to like school work or work stuff, and now that we teach them how to use those skills, now they can do it by themselves.
These days everything is on the computer and online. Whatever you have to do it is online.
So it’s an opportunity for me to go and learn about it.
You can have a smartphone, but you’re not going to get an opportunity to know what is inside there until you go for classes for AI and then after that you will know what to use in it.
The class was filled with excitement and also nervousness.
Mostly, we teach them how to use Google Translate. In Google Translate, you can write your language and they can translate to English as well.
We teach them how to set up emails. We also teach them how to use social media in a safe way.
Women in my community, they are using AI. They are using Siri to ask about the weather. They are now able to use the emails, chatbox or Google Translator.
They also use AI. To help the kids with their homework.
One lady just screamed loudly. I did it. I did it. I sent my first email.
I feel more safer and I feel comfortable with it. They are learning a lot from this program. And this is what is needed in the workforce.
I really feel really grateful when women come up and say, oh, thank you for teaching this class and I really learned something, and that makes me feel confident for myself and. Confident room for them as well.
This program has helped people to have confidence in themselves. People feel more independent.
I want this program to continue because it’s helping a lot of people. It’s not only me. I can go out there and tell people about it because it’s really, really helping.
Our library of free online learning resources support women to improve their digital skills. Our community partners use these resources to provide local support. You can also use them to learn in your own time.
Our Digital Sisters community partners run digital skills programs for women in their community. They provide:
Grants are occasionally available to fund our network of community organisations to run these programs. You may also like to consider how our Be Connected program grants can be used to support women aged over 50 in your community. Organisations must be a member of our network to apply.
Our Digital Sisters: AI for Good initiative helps women keep up with emerging technology.
Supported by Telstra and Microsoft.
Our library of resources for digital mentors help community organisation to support women to improve their digital skills and confidence. Join the network to access these resources, grants and more!
