This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Solvable.

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

If they can decode information and build the website or build an app and get some skills to

help them get money, they wouldn't be trafficked, they wouldn't be young prostitutes,

they wouldn't be abused because they have to depend on someone else.

So I'm trying to change society problems at the same time giving young women skills

so they don't end up like myself. Mary M. Jemm is the founder of I Am the Code. Her organization

teaches young people computer literacy and coding. According to the World Wide Web Foundation, men

continue to be 21% more likely to be online than women. And they're around

50% more likely to be online when we look at the world's least developed countries. That gap

represents a huge difference in access, access to information, access to learning, and engagement

with the rest of the world. We are helping young women to become digitally intelligent.

They know how Instagram was created, how Facebook was created,

and we helped them get into the information

where they know how actually the solution were created.

My interview with Miriam Jem first ran last year.

We wanted to air it again as a bit of holiday inspiration.

Merriam's example shows that people who seem to have the least power in the world can make a

tremendous difference through sheer determination and creative thinking. It's also a reminder

that smart investments can have a transformative impact on the lives of large numbers of people.

My solvable is to get 1 million women and girls to learn how to code by the year 2030.

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