Raimondo unveils IPEF effort to build digital skills among women, girls

LOS ANGELES -- Tangible benefits from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity are evident “before we've even gotten underway,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Thursday, unveiling an initiative she said will provide millions of new training opportunities -- primarily focused on women and girls -- to the region’s developing economies. Speaking between rounds of IPEF negotiations during the first in-person ministerial here, Raimondo, joined by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, foreign ministers and technology executives, announced that companies including...