This is a brochure of the project “Economic empowerment of Ethnic Minority Women via application of I4.0”, which is expected to enable 450 ethnic minority women to expand their business and escape from poverty.

Poor ethnic minority women and their business partners, investors, government policy makers and service providers will be engaged in an Accelerator Lab Journey, building on the 3M (Match, Mentoring and Move) initiative.

The initiative aims to maximize IR 4.0 empowered opportunities, including

• E-commerce platforms enabling small production units to link to the markets and in value chains;
• Innovative finance solutions such as e-banking, e-payments, micro-insurance;
• Social media and other e-platforms for online learning, skill training, peer to peer learining, coaching startups and obtaining information for disaster prevention and mitigation;
• New production technologies such as smart agriculture, block-chain for tracing the product origins; 
• Data and tools for real-time citizen feedback and policy maker learning.