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Parliaments across the world slow to go online
A press conference in second life
Only 10 per cent of parliaments in the EU, Africa, Latin America, Australia and Canada use the internet to reach out to the citizens, according to a recently published UN report. The figures are interesting, if you consider that 21.9 % of the world population is online.
The World e-Parliament Report 2008, produced by The Global Centre for ICT, documents how parliaments around the world are using, or planning to use ICT, to connect, engage with and fulfil their responsibility to their constituencies. It also shares lessons learned and good practices from different regions and institutions around the world. Read more
Luck has nothing to do with it- Van Leeuwen’s online adventures
Marianne van Leeuwen: founder of dutch price comparison site Miepkniep
It is a perfect morning in Amsterdam and sitting at a tiny bar table is a woman, Marianne van Leeuwen. Without saying a word, she radiates a playful energy coupled with an air of someone who seems to have it all. [You wonder to yourself at just why some people are so lucky?]
Marianne van Leeuwen has been on an online entrepreneurial adventure for the last 10 years. The founding of MiepKniep in 1998, the first Dutch price comparison website, was only the first chapter. Already though, it was evident from introducing a price comparison website to the Dutch culture in particular, a nation of traders over the centuries, that Marianne has a strength for good ideas. And running with them. Read more
Katarina Skoberne talks about growing a global business
Katarina Skoberne, founder of OPENAD.NET will talk about setting up and growing a global business in the internet industry tomorrow at the Female Internet Heroes Event. Further, she will interview Andrea Cockerton, founder of MUDHUT Consultancy, and prior thereto director of the Great Eastern Investment Forum, one of the leading business angel networks in the UK, on how to getting finance and perfecting your pitch for your internet venture. Katarina Skoberne was interviewed on IntrudersTV:
Controversial online baby store launches
High heels for babies are now sold online at HEELARIOUS. But the launch of this website has given rise to many reactions. In the US Britta Bacon & Hayden Porter are childhood friends turned business partners, who joined forces to launch heelarious®. Even though safety and comfort was the main concern of the makers, they warn people as follows:
WARNING: May cause extreme smiling and hysterical laughter when in use (this is completely normal).
However, some people may find them indeed simply fun and glamourous, but others feel they sexualise babies and are inappropriate for really young feet and are a definitie no.
Coming at a price of 19,99 pounds, the shoes are sold in Britain by female entrepreneur Julia Taylor.
Entrepreneurs to pitch business for women panel
Four entrepreneurs will pitch their business during the Female Internet Heroes Event in front of a panel, consisting of Penny Gowers, Founder and CEO of Everyclick and Blackberry Woman in Technology Award winner in 2008, Jenny Fielding, UK Advisory Board Member of Astia and Katarina Skoberne of Openad.
- Julia Macmillan, Founder and CEO www.toyboywarehouse.com
- Sue Guerrieri, Founder of SugaPlum Shop
- Anna Colclough, Founder of Tourdust (in beta)
- Alicia Navarro, Founder and CEO of Skimbit
The winning pitch will be rewarded a free consultancy by Andrea Cockerton of MUDHUT, who has already de-risked business critical pitches for almost 300 companies, individuals and teams, such as in connection with the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006-2008.
Julia MacMillan was interviewed by us some time ago; she received recently angel investment to grow the business.
Alicia Navarro was interviewed by Intruders TV:
Lisa Sounio to host Female Internet Heroes event
Lisa Sounio
Another two days until the Female Internet Heroes Event in London will take place. Together with Jackie Brennan of Freshideas Events, we have arranged for an excellent line up of speakers who will talk on setting up an online business, business models, raising finance, pitching your business and developing the UK and European market. Founder of Dopplr Lisa Sounio will be host of the event. She was interviewed by us some months ago:
What is a female entrepreneur to you?
I get a lot of people calling me, sending me emails, wanting to come meet me, to ask me how to become a female entrepreneur. So there seems to be a huge willingness and potential among women to do business. What women need is guts. Women have lots of ideas, and they are good organisers. But they need to work on bringing that into business. They need to work on financial understanding, making the business work. I think women are often too focused on the idea and have a hard time trying to create the structure around it.
What advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs?
I think to gather a good team and get understanding of finances. Also, women often think too small. They create something on their own, or with two women. What they say about modern Russians is that if the Russians build a house, they go to amazing lengths to find the best raw materials. This is the way women should think about business. Where can I get the brightest brains?
Click here for the full interview.
The full details of the event are here.
Book: Why Women Mean Business
The Web, Women and the Weather are the three challenges of the 21st century that the book Why Women Mean Business seeks to discuss.
They mean it
While it may appear to be a title on female empowerment, the book is, In fact, a book for anyone in the workforce. Published early 2008, it is a response to the growing pressures felt within the industry to find solutions to gender specific issues. Why Women Mean Business puts forward the idea that ‘Gender is a business issue, not a women’s issue’ and seeks to eliminate positive discrimination and introduce flexibility for anyone - young and old; men and women, fathers and mothers. Read more
Priceless Laptop
Pinkish delight
Hot on the heels of the credit crunch, the ASUS EEE PC 901 laptop is still the perfect all-rounder with a fantastic specification and free of the strangling tug of purse strings associated with so many of its competitors.
Unveiled 2008, this 12GB SSD ASUS is widely considered one of the best laptops on the market. Ultralight, it is easily carried in your purse, while, with no moving parts and a robust design, it can resist the shocks of a busy business woman’s lifestyle. It even comes with online storage. Read more
Online collection of art murmurart launches
A first online platform offering art has launched this month. The site is dedicated to the promotion of emerging artists and can be found at murmurART.com.
Find artists..online
Over the last six months murmurART, with the help of the former editor of Art Review Catriona Warren, has searched through hundreds of artists to pick those it wanted to represent on the site. As a result, murmurART has now put the work of 40 of the most talented emerging artists in the UK for sale online.
Taking a lower commission than galleries, the site hopes to attract people who want to invest in emerging art by artists at the start of their careers. Read more
Art Project: dresscode of social groupes in Exactitudes
London city girls
European Director of TED, Bruno Giussani, points us to “Exactitudes“, a truly amazing art project about similarities in the dress codes of different social groups. Take a look at the dress code of Babes, Formers, Ghoullies, Women in Charitas (Rotterdam) and London City Girls (see photo) and many more social groups.
(How would the dresscode be of TheNextWomen or Femal Internet Heroes?)
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