"VOF Week 1: My Ladder.

Web 2.0 is my ladder.I look at her with awe and amazement.I handle her with respect,though she is quite friendly.Sometimes she is my teacher,and sometimes she behaves like a stubborn sheep,not moving an inch whatever the circumstances.Sometimes,during the floods,she becomes my boat...crossing the deepest waters with me,and taking me to safe habors!...oh! and she's my telephone,and...

As we chatted with Jensine at the AWID Conference in Cape Town,we tried to imagine how long and what strength it might have taken to organize the Fourth World Women Conference in Beijing about fourteen years back:It was incomparable to the modern times.The times of web 2.0.Now,the global women's empowerment movement is made more managable by the use of web 2.0.We can virtually share everything,from clips,to news,to the Pope's comments on the use of condoms...I learnt even more about it in a pre-conference at Monkey Valley,and realised that it has more abilities than i thiught.Yes-solutions are brought since we can talk in one voice from differnt corners of the world,and share solutions.Information is power,and here it is.

This is the paragraph i was wanting to skip to all the time.Web 2.0 has empowered me in such a short time in Life! I have never had more friends,read more articles,laughed and cried with other people from all over the world through web 2.0.PulseWire has been my major tool,and email too.Now i can count on numerous achievements,from personal,to local,national and international communities.My latest achievement is by getting a scholarship for my training as a HIV Counselor.I am able to put food on the table,and to do the things that make me feel like a woman.I am able to travel widely,and share experiences and ideas,especially in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

I know no other road,or forum.

And my greatest amazement,is that my feet ever clings to the rungs of my ladder.Can anyone surely slip,and if they do,will the rest of their web 2.0 comrades let them fall?

With awe and amazement,and appreciation,

Leah.