{"id":53487,"date":"2026-09-29T23:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/contare-le-donne-e-necessario-ma-non-e-sufficiente\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:23:27","slug":"counting-women-is-necessary-but-it-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/en\/counting-women-is-necessary-but-it-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting women is necessary. But it is not enough."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<div class=\"dfd-spacer-module\"  data-units=\"px\" data-wide_resolution=\"1280\" data-wide_size=\"40\" data-normal_resolution=\"1024\" data-normal_size=\"40\" data-tablet_resolution=\"800\" data-tablet_size=\"20\" data-mobile_resolution=\"480\" data-mobile_size=\"20\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The 28th of September at AIOTI Days2026 in Florence, during the Connecting Women In Digital session \u201cWomen in Europe\u2019s Digital Future: Building Inclusive AI Ecosystems\u201d, I focused on a fundamental question: how do we know whether an AI ecosystem is truly inclusive?<br \/>\nRepresentation tells us who has entered the room. But we must also measure who remains and progresses, who influences priorities and decisions, and who benefits\u2014or is negatively affected\u2014by the technologies being developed.\u00a0Being present does not automatically mean having the power to shape what happens.<br \/>\nI also highlighted how local ecosystems can become laboratories for inclusive innovation. Cities can bring actors together around public challenges; universities can combine technological research with insights from the social sciences and humanities; public administrations can use procurement to demand transparency, accessibility and gender impact assessment; businesses can scale responsible solutions; and civil society can contribute lived experience from the outset.<br \/>\nAIxGirls\u00a0is one concrete example. 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