Comments on: FringeHog Friday Five: The Women of Pop!Tech http://fringehog.com/2007/10/26/fringehog-friday-five-the-women-of-poptech/ Ideas on the Verge Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Joe McCarthy http://fringehog.com/2007/10/26/fringehog-friday-five-the-women-of-poptech/#comment-5917 Joe McCarthy Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:28:57 +0000 http://fringehog.com/2007/10/26/fringehog-friday-five-the-women-of-poptech/#comment-5917 There were some amazing people at Pop!Tech, and I was especially pleased to see so many women - on and off the stage - engaging in the conversations about "human impact". As Zainab noted in her talk, women are the bellwethers of a society - they are the ones who keep life going (especially in times and places of war) - and so it was refreshing to see an event where women's voices were so prominent (and, of course, inspiring). BTW, Katrin provided a great example of practicing what she preaches by using a mobile phone to empower people: videotaping an interview with two other amazing women at the conference - Krista Dong and Zinhle Thabathe - about the work they are doing (some of which they had presented at the conference) and posting it to the MobileActive web site: http://mobileactive.org/potential-cell-phones-co. She has also posted the slides she presented at the conference (on mobile empowerment) on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/poptech2007 There were some amazing people at Pop!Tech, and I was especially pleased to see so many women - on and off the stage - engaging in the conversations about “human impact”. As Zainab noted in her talk, women are the bellwethers of a society - they are the ones who keep life going (especially in times and places of war) - and so it was refreshing to see an event where women’s voices were so prominent (and, of course, inspiring).

BTW, Katrin provided a great example of practicing what she preaches by using a mobile phone to empower people: videotaping an interview with two other amazing women at the conference - Krista Dong and Zinhle Thabathe - about the work they are doing (some of which they had presented at the conference) and posting it to the MobileActive web site: http://mobileactive.org/potential-cell-phones-co. She has also posted the slides she presented at the conference (on mobile empowerment) on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/poptech2007

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