The International Taskforce on Women and Information and Communication Technologies (ITF) is a community of expertise of organizations, institutions, businesses, academia and individuals working to increase the economic, social, and educational opportunities for women and girls in the knowledge society in a measurable way.  The ITF is recognized as a Community of Expertise (CoE) by the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID). 

The members of the ITF represent a broad range of initiatives with a range of sectoral expertise and regional representation. It is a think tank that can be drawn on for expanding current efforts and identifying and filling gaps in the women and IT world globally.

Although the Taskforce was not set up as a permanent institution, members are agreed that it will remain active as long as it is agreed it serves a useful function, either on the international stage, interacting with international organizations and/or in relation to Global Women and Technology (GWT).  The regional centres that together create the GWT will collaborate with the global ITF Steering Committee.

ITF is guided by the principles signed by the founders of the ITF and laid down in the Declaration of Agreement. ITF members act with the ultimate goal to measurably and significantly increase the number of girls and women in technology and in the knowledge based economy by the end of 2015. ITF Membership is open to all who subscribe to the ITF Declaration of Agreement and Guiding Principles.

The ITF was launched in June 2005 in Baltimore MD, USA and through a series of high profile global activities – including major conferences in Paris AND Kuala Lumpur in 2006-2007 – has mobilized over 100 stakeholders from around the globe including high-level decision makers of the United Nations, UNESCO, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank; major multinational companies including HP, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Dell and NOKIA as well as regional public key actors in universities, research institutes, global and regional NGOs from all continents.

In Kuala Lumpur December 2007 these stakeholders identified the need to create ‘a bold new global multi-stakeholder strategy to bring about a major break-through in regard to women's participation in the knowledge-based economy' and set up Ten Regional Centres within a global framework, which together constitute Global Women and Technology (GWT).

The ITF Network at the start in 2005 - Revi Sterling, Microsoft