On 5 and 6 June 2025 in Abidjan, under the patronage of First Lady Dominique Ouattara, ADWIN (African and African Descendant Women Impact Network) was inaugurated, the world's first artificial intelligence-based platform dedicated to empowering one million African and African descendant women by 2030.
Much more than a traditional network, ADWIN is a global movement aimed at uniting women around an equitable vision. Initiated by Élisabeth Moreno - former French Minister for Equality between Women and Men - alongside key figures such as Prescillia Avenel-Delpha and Euphrasie Kouassi Yao, adviser to the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, the platform also has the support of the First Ladies of Cape Verde and Congo-Brazzaville.
Based on five pillars, ADWIN integrates powerful AI components for each area. Win Skills offers personalised learning tailored to users' aspirations. Win Confidence encourages mentoring by pairing experienced leaders with young talent. The next step will be the launch of Win Capital, an intelligent agent designed to detect funding opportunities. Then there's Win Well, for holistic well-being, and finally Win Heritage, a programme dedicated to promoting Africa's cultural heritage through unbiased data - the latter being described as "the most important pillar" according to Morad el Mezyani, the project's AI expert.
The need for such initiatives is crying out: despite a high rate of female entrepreneurship (26 %), less than 1 % of global venture capital funding reaches black women entrepreneurs, with an estimated wage gap of 30 % and a maternal mortality rate of 542 per 100,000 births. Against this backdrop, Elisabeth Moreno stressed that ADWIN was "not just another network, but a global movement deploying collective power".
Finally, at the launch at the Sofitel Ivoire, cultural figures such as Queen Olori Temitope Enitan-Ogunwusi symbolised the link between tradition and modernity, reinforcing the pan-African and diasporic dimension of the project.
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