Women in the Digital Future

Cheryl D. Miller - Zen Digital Europe - 16 April 2013
Women in the Digital Future
#womendigital #girlsdigital
Cheryl D. Miller
ZenDigital.EU

1. Fools will predict the future
2. 50 Billion Souls
3. William Gibson: The future is
already here, it’s just not evenly
distributed

1. Sharing vs. Accumulating
2. Open vs. Closed
3. Free/Empowered vs. Owned/Enslaved

Sharing vs. Accumulating

“We need to be worried... Risk has already
increased dramatically.”
- MaartenVan Aalst, Co-Author
“Global warming is increasing the risk of
disaster ...The risk will become greater as the future
gets hotter."
- Michael Oppenheimer, Co-Author
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, November 2011

(c) Rex Features The Guardian

“The door is closing. I am very worried – if we
don't change direction now on how we use energy, we
will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the
minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed
forever.”
-Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency

Club of Rome “Limits to Growth” Report 1972
Material/physical growth is no longer
possible!

Unlimited Growth:
• Empathy
• Compassion
• Love
• Wisdom
• Harmony
• Knowledge
(c) GapingVoid

Women have a
profound, positive
contribution to make!

2. Open vs. Closed
+data, privacy
+information
+knowledge
+wisdom...

2. Free/Empowered vs. Owned/Enslaved
“The greatest measure of a society is
how well it treats its weakest members”

- ?? / CDM
+empowerment: through knowledge &
skills
+sustainability: 100% of society engaged

Imagine, Design & Create the Future!

Key Areas:
Biotech
Nanotech
ICT4Health
ICT for Good
Manipulating the planet
Manipulating ourselves

Challenge

1in 5 girls want to work in Tech

3 in 10 MST Students are Women

1 in 4 Degrees in CS are Women

24% of IT Workers are Women

1 of 5 in ICT are Women

Opportunity

Economically
“[F]rom the 1970s until today, the fact that more
women entered the work force was a big driver of GDP
growth. In a snapshot, the number of women
participating in the work force went from about 41% to
56% over a 40-year period. If they didn't join the work
force, that would have been a 25% hit to GDP.-Dominic
Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.WSJ
CEO Council Interview, 21 November 2011

Morally
“[C]ompanies with more women on their boards of
directors and in senior positions tended to have more
active corporate philanthropy efforts, and to give more
money, than those with fewer women at high levels..”
-Harvard Study, July 2011

Socially
Women involuntarily imitate other peoples’ emotional
expressions more than men—a behavior thought to
reﬂect increased activity of “mirror neurons,” cells in the
brain that activate both when someone performs an
action and when he or she sees someone else perform
that same action.
-Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Study, 1995

Health,Wellbeing,
Everything!
“Evidence shows that with equal access to education,
training and means, women can raise the living
standards of their families and inject new life into the
local economy...
“Women also play a key role in guaranteeing food
security for the entire household. In the hands of
women, food is far more likely to reach the mouths of
needy children...”
-World Food Programme, October 2010

So what do we do?

Restore Balance

The best indicator of
the future is the past.

Power of knowledge
Power of technology
Power of FUN!

Contact:
Cheryl D. Miller
Founder & Executive Director
Zen Digital Europe
Email: cheryl@zendigital.eu
@ZenDigitalEU - http://zendigital.eu
@Women2020 - http://women2020.org
@DigiMuse - http://digitalmuse.org
@GHiveOrg - http://g-hive.org
@InspireOrg - http://inspiregirls.org
@inQubeEU - http://inQube.eu
@EUWomen
@GirlsDigital
@roningirl

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