After the announcement of the launching of Newmediawomen.org the speakers from their backgrounds and perspectives shared their views on how a woman can improve their chances on an environment where often is a whole table of men with dark suits with one woman. They highlighted the importance of women as decision makers on important issues from the food to the education of the kids or the cars the family has. But also they discussed that sometimes the environment is not the best to allow them develop their careers, often they are far from the center of power.

I think that Web 2.0 is giving women amazing opportunities to develop their skills and re invent the media scenario from their needs. There are a lot of young women entrepreneurs, they often promote balance, diverse work teams. You have places like Realgirlsmedia.com, women2.org, Blogher… where not only creativity but the inner skills of women of building communities is showing the world that a better world is possible, and that women will play an important role on it.

I think that the real change can be made not only in the professional field, girls are doing well on it in general. I am thinking about millions of undereducated women from several countries, where they are facing discrimination and poverty, there new media and technology can make a real change and radically change their lives.

They can learn more about their rights, they will be less marginalized, less misinformed.With the skills and the tools to produce content and to express their ideas, they can start projects or show their entrepreneur projects ideas technology and media. Or just learn more about basic health stuff, find more resources for the education of their kids, and at some point they can really improve their quality of life.

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