Proof, with sources
Impact you can verify
Every number below says what it rests on. Where a figure is SHEQONOMI’s own assertion rather than something you can check, it is labelled as one.
🏆 Grand prize winner · $150,000
IsDB Transform Fund — Grand Prize
Ranked first of 5,000 applications from 173 countries in the Islamic Development Bank's Transform Fund Call for COVID-19 Global Innovation.
Awarded by Dr. Hayat Sindi, the IsDB's Chief Scientific Adviser. SHEQONOMI was selected as the top-ranked COVID-19 innovation solution for Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Basis: Islamic Development Bank Transform Fund award announcement, 2021. Contract signed and publicly announced.
By the numbers
What each figure rests on
Four numbers the site quotes, and the basis for each.
- Women & girlsunderserved worldwide
- 885M
- The addressable audience — women and girls underserved by mainstream media, not an audience already reached.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
- Countrieswith listeners
- 195
- Listener countries recorded by the platform.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
- Languagessupported
- 65+
- Languages represented across the podcast catalogue.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
- Podcasts& growing
- 5,000+
- Shows in the catalogue on the listening platform.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
- Episodesto play
- 97,868
- Episodes across the catalogue on the listening platform.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
- Social impressionssince 2020
- 1B+
- Cumulative social media impressions since 2020. An impressions count is not an audience — it is the number of times something appeared on a screen.Stated by SHEQONOMI · not independently sourced
United Nations
Supporting five SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals the platform's work maps onto.
- 1No Poverty
- 4Quality Education
- 5Gender Equality
- 10Reduced Inequalities
- 17Partnerships for the Goals
Five, named — not all seventeen. These are the goals the platform’s work maps onto directly.