Women and Technology - 2012

The 5th International Women’s Conference was organized by the International Association for Human Values, Ved Vignan, Maha Vidya Peeth, the Art of Living and Vista India. The Conference entitled “Women and Technology” was attended by over 500 delegates from 55 countries and was webcast to over 50 countries and watched by thousands of people. The Conference saw women leaders from various cultures and countries, and from different spheres of life come together to discuss and share experiences and concerns on the subject.

Outcomes of Past Conferences

Some of the service initiatives pledged as an outcome of the conference:

Empowering social entrepreneurship in Bangladesh;
Establishing a rural school in Orissa, India;
Facilitating holistic education for 1500 girl students in Karnataka, India;
Exhibiting continuing commitment towards girl child education. Approximately 4400 underprivileged girl children have been educated since the first Conference in 2005;
Exploring opportunities, along with the World Bank Institute, to develop schemes to empower women in fragile nations.;
Supporting environmental care, beginning with the plantation of 1000 trees at the Conference;
Expanding vocational training for widows in Iraq;
Initiating a signature campaign to urge the government of the United States of America to pass a bill to stop violence against women;

Experiences of Delegates & Speakers

The arrangements were breathtaking. The reception was awesome, the welcome kit was so uplifting. I felt like a small child being gifted with goodies. The dining experience was so fine, the decorations were done in the most aesthetic way. It was a visual delight to see the well dressed beautiful women. The ideas and the intelligence which were exchanged in each of the sessions gave us food for thought. The experience has been extremely fulfilling. Thanks to the wonderful team effort.

Lakshmi .V

Please accept my heartfelt gratitude in making the conference so wonderful. Celebrating Womanhood and Sisterhood together made me proud to be a woman. Cheers to Womanity - Woman + Humanity. Proud to be a delegate of IWC 2012.

Beena Rao - India

It is a month gone by and the energy within is still on an all time high. I loved the AOL Ashram. I will be back as I feel that I did not get enough!

Sharina Ramdas- Zimbabwe

It was a remarkable and life changing experience to join you at the conference, and I was inspired by many of the women there. I am just beginning to "unpack" and post on facebook, twitter, and blog. There is a lot of material to get out there!

Ms Cathie Burton - Strasbourg, Europe

It was indeed an incredibly wonderful experience for me to be present at the recently concluded conference and address such a power house congregation on a topical theme that is so much a part of our daily lives. I must say this was truly one of the single most best conferences that I have participated in. Please accept my compliments on orchestrating such a picture perfect event-both figuratively and literally.

Ms Maya Chakravarty Vishwanathan-India

The 5th Conference of women is the future cooperation for the union of the women in the world,union of races,ideologies,culture, customs,etc.
This kind of conference and socialization will be the support of the women of future generations.It has been an amazing experience.I want to express my admiration to our big hearted mentor,Mrs. Bhanu Didi. Each of the speakers has given me the pleasure of listening to different stories, receiving good values and of course one big truth:"We are powerful,we have a big responsibility in this world.

Maria.S. Viollaz, Argentina