Oky: Trailblazing Girl-Centered Tech
Oky is the world’s first digital menstruation app co-created with and for girls., The app provides evidence-based information about periods, puberty, and reproductive health in fun, creative and positive ways, straight into girls’ hands. Oky is tailored to girls’ lives, language and digital realities and is currently live in Mongolia and Indonesia, with more markets coming soon. Oky has been recognized by the Digital Public…, Raising the bar: girl-centered design, Digital public goods uphold internationally agreed principles for digital development . The first principle is to design with the user. But despite best intentions, teams habitually design with a user base that is predominantly male. Too often, girls are left out of co-creation, design, or product testing. What is different when designing with…, Matching tech to girl user requirements , Through this girl-centered design, Oky emerged as a gamified, light-weight application. It runs offline, is easy to navigate by design, and includes a read-out option and visual tutorials. It also allows for girls who share phones - either within the family or with peers - to have high data protection and privacy. What might make your digital…, Building an open-source (girl) community, As a digital public good, Oky upholds particular standards - and in line with the DPG Standard, Oky is open source. The Oky source code is publicly available on GitHub . Being open-source allows Oky to continuously be improved, through a global community. Oky’s community is growing rapidly, with implementation partners developing Oky in 12…, Breaking the digital glass ceiling, Innovation holds incredible promise to benefit more children and young people in new ways. This applies not just to technology, but to new partnerships, new ways of working, and new ways to scale promising services. To reach more young people means girls must be deliberately included. Oky not only meets best practices for digital development, but…
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