The Next Generation Internet is a European Commission funded initiative that facilitates, funds, enables, and promotes the shift towards a safe, human-centric, and inclusive internet through the development of digital commons. As part of this journey, NGI is committed to addressing the current gender gap that exists in open source, and more generally within the software development landscape. While celebrating International Women’s Day, we share in this post some of the work being carried out to address these issues as part of a wider effort to promote equity, diversity and inclusion across all elements of the NGI ecosystem.