COMMENT, California, USA – Today we noticed on SlideShare an interesting presentation drawing attention to influential women in Web 2.0.
The slides are based on Fast Company’s original article.
Supporting Trends.
2thinknow have commented that with the rise of California, East European capitals, Boston, Netherlands and India as IT destinations (among others) — there has been a rise in the number of influential IT women.
The geek-level hard-coder is still predominately male. CeBit 08 or WordCamp 07 will confirm that. 90%+ wired males at last year’s San Fran WordCamp.
But now it’s beyond C++ & pure coding, and into design and social media implementation, with ties to PR & human skills, often the inspirers & implementors are women.
The Geek Girls.
The 2thinknow view is that in Bucharest, Budapest, Boston, Jeddah or elsewhere women are having an impact in web 2.0 technology, and will form part of the next gen leadership group.
Add to that prominent twitterers, bloggers & gamers, and you get the wave of an infant global trend. Gen Y seem far less gender divided in Western nations, as well. Gender is less of an issue, as was race in Obama’s election.
What do you think? Do you think the prominent women in IT are bringing a much needed communication ability to IT & web?
Great choice of slides, Christopher. The great thing about web 2.0 is that gender, age, location, race and such things do not matter at all. What matters is who you are as a person and what skills and ideas you have and what you can add to this amazing versatile world wide web.