Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Roya Mahboob, Afghan women’s rights advocate and CEO of Digital Citizen Fund, shares the story of how she became Afghanistan’s first female tech CEO and founded the country’s now internationally renowned girls robotics team. She sheds light on Afghanistan’s widening gender gap in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover in 2021, and discusses new tactics Digital Citizen Fund is adopting to provide educational opportunities to women and girls in Afghanistan.

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