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Tech Nordic Advocates’ International Mentoring Programme is looking to emulate Canada’s top-down approach and transform Denmark’s under-performance when it comes to gender equality in entrepreneurship. Years of stagnation and false dawns have been the story until now, despite conscious efforts to bridge the gender gap. However, after monitoring Canada’s approach to rectifying a similar situation in 2020, there was a realisation that a change of tack was needed. Tech Nordic Advocates (TNA) is the Nordic arm of Global Tech Advocates – a global digital/tech platform that spans 18 global tech hubs and thousands of tech leaders from Silicon Valley, across the Nordics, London and the rest of Europe, and as far as Australia. Having worked on the women-in-tech agenda with different approaches for some time, the organisation’s partnership with Canada affirmed that dedicated grassroot-level events, networks, workshops and education targeted towards women founders-in-tech were useful for the women involved, but they were only highlighting ...