Theres an army of women ready to support the, and theyre all over the world. That kind of confidence comes from knowing that they exist. But what we found when we did a study in 2013 is that women are sadly left behind in terms of internet access. In our report women in the web which we did with your assist and you with women in polls, we identified how large this gap is. Unfortunately, in Subsaharan Africa is the largest gap that we identified. These women and girls are being left behind for a variety of reasons that been mentioned today. We found that when they have access to the internet have access to education, the information that can help them with health care, job creation, Society Development and disempowerment that comes to meeting others that are like you. And so we know that by closing that gap we can make a tremendous impact. We have been committed to a goal of reducing the gap in Subsaharan Africa by 50 in the next five years, and we have numerous, tremendous partners tha
On thursday morning president obama will be traveling to dcginia to the washington suburbs. He will be sending a plan to address health care delays at the v. A. Congress passed the bill before leaving for their summer recess. It is designed to limit wait lists for v. A. Patients. Live coverage begins at 11 20 eastern time. Itator Bernie Sanders says is time to hire more doctors, nurses, and staff at v. A. Health care facilities. Tweets that she will watch the president signed legislation to reform the v. A. And help thats into law. Looking forward to meeting v. A. Secretary macdonald. The hill newspaper had this story. President obama said yesterday that it was premature to fasttrack experimental ebola drug for approval. Even though a deadly outbreak of the disease was in africa. I think we have to let the science guide us, the president said at the u. S. Africa summit in washington. Think allw, i dont of the information is in as to whether this drug is helpful. To american doctors who
He will be able to take the population and income tax to pay zero income tax. And that has been able to work in improving the economy in 160 countries already in the world. We are moving in that direction we will continue with that. Thank you. It is extraordinary to me that the skills gap has been an acrosstheboard issue for all of you. Despite the fact that each state has its own mentality and its own strength, and opportunities in terms of resources, manufacturing. You all agree on so much, and clearly the issues are around the federal government and its impact in terms of Broad Strokes in the face of your own very different economies. It feels like the opportunities do surround manufacturing, as well as some of those science and health care jobs. I want to thank all of you for having me today. I wish you success for the rest of your meeting. [applause] who thank you for helping with this valuable discussion. I think we learned a lot from everyone at the table. This concludes our spe
[inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and once again we are live at the Atlantic Council here in washington d. C. Moroccos Foreign Affairs or is the guest speaker this morning talking about strategies to combat violent extremism. There will also be a Panel Discussion all in his remarks. While we have a moment quickly some of our programming coming up later on the cspan network. He says social networking creates false communities. You can see his comments at 7 00. My name is peter pham director here at the Atlantic Council. On behalf of the Atlantic Council chairman aeschylus mcauley, ambassador frank richer donate, director of the Atlantic Council Rafik Hariri Center for middle east, it is my honor to invite you. I essentially want to acknowledge the presence of the ambassador his majesty, king of morocco to the United States, a good friend and like its predecessor member of the Atlantic Council. I also want to welcome all of the distinguished g
Fmr. Sen. Davis thank you. Thank you all. Thank you to ethan and camille for putting this together today and all of the work particularly that camille undertook to make sure that we were able to do this and thank you for being here and giving me the opportunity to speak with you. I was delighted to land in sunny california after being in a really cold winter in texas. I am here today to address gender, specifically why gender equality is losing ground, and how we can work to reverse that. I am going to ask you to challenge conventional thinking and how we define and talk about gender inequality, and i will hopefully help you understand the lens through which i view gender. More and more, i am coming to understand and appreciate how each of our individual filters formed through formed through our life filters define a political framework, and i would like to invite us to consider each others personal perspectives, each others lenses as we strive to move womens political equality to move