World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is on a mission to connect half a million digitally empowered grassroots women leaders and accelerate their ability to drive local and global change in every region of the world, ultimately impacting a billion more in their communities over the next 10 years. As of this year, our World Pulse members have impacted a cumulative 21 million people worldwide.

On average a woman active on World Pulse for 2 years, increases her impact to improve the lives of 2,000 more people in her community.

“You connect to people you’ve never met, you make an impact from your corner of the room, and you become limitless.”
Chinyere, World Pulse member from Nigeria

Ultimately, World Pulse is on a mission to speed up the pace towards global gender equity by using technology to unleash the untapped potential of women everywhere. We know that when women are heard and connected, they have the power to transform the world.

Our strategic 10 year plan to mobilize 500K women to impact 1 billion people hinges on the following objectives:

1) Growing More Leaders: Expand our accessible online leadership pathway and safe environment to accelerate women’s leadership growth and offline impact.

2) Raising the Volume: Crowdsource content on timely issues of importance for women globally and promote their diverse collective voices to advocacy partners, media, and institutions.

3) Growing Movements: Network women leaders and organizations across regions and topics to facilitate online and offline collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and impact tracking.

•An award-winning social network platform - scalable, mobile-friendly, multi-lingual & open source

•An existing global online community of tens of thousands of women from 190 countries, impacting over 21.6 million lives

•Over a decade of experience developing and promoting global women's voices

•A global corps of dedicated on the ground ambassadors

•Trusted global brand that is an established thought leader, featured in prominent stages and international forums on women's digital empowerment. Deep collaborator with 40+ International partners, including civil society, business, government, and institutions.

In 2020, the women across World Pulse’s global community were undeterred, connecting online to create a new future worldwide. The past year brought devastating challenges that hit women and historically excluded people the hardest. But in this era of intensified isolation, the World Pulse community used technology to hold each other on the front lines of crisis, reaching across borders and barriers to co-create the blueprint for a more just future.

As the world’s leading safe, supportive online community with a decade of experience connecting women worldwide for change, we know that the leadership of women is vital to building inclusive pathways in times of crisis. This year our membership of 80,000 logged on to rise up together across 227 countries and territories – and in doing so, impacted millions around the globe, bringing the cumulative total of our member impact to 21.6 million.

Despite a year where women’s progress rolled back a generation - 79% of members surveyed reported that being a part of the World Pulse global network increased their resilience. In fact 7 out of 10 members surveyed reported that because of their involvement with World Pulse they took action in their community, and impacted 4.2 million more lives. What’s more, new member impact dashboards placed power in their own hands to put their impact initiatives and ambitions on the record - revealing their ambitions and plans to reach 85 million more.

World Pulse will continue to boost their efforts. Members are often doing more than their own governments: building food security and providing health care for their communities, standing up to warlords in conflict zones, building systems to end gender-based violence and white supremacy, educating girls in refugee camps, advocating in international forums for climate action and Indigenous rights, taking technology into their own hands to strengthen peace movements, and so much more.

Looking ahead in 2021 and beyond, we’ll use technology in even more exciting ways to accelerate women’s leadership and connect grassroots leaders on a global scale to shift power. We will introduce a brand new platform rooted in design justice principles and ethical tech that is led by community leaders. With global partners, we are also working to bridge the gender digital divide by launching the "Her Digital Leadership Alliance" which will connect 20,000 emerging leaders across 50 countries with gender-transformative digital skills to benefit millions more.