Next panel: how we start to
Move the needle on women’s representation.

Donna Dasko, Canadian Senator was asked for a solution for getting more women in office

A: Not all countries can implement quotas.
Transparency can help tho. It’s had an impact inside corps. Take it to governments.

Ressa has 3 solutions to the reality that our tech favors the bully.

Technology, independent journalism, community

We can work together to do things like create an influencer marketing campaign for facts. Ex: 150 groups doing fact checks, creating content + distributing #FactsFirstPH

Maria Ressa considers herself lucky she was among the first. For public women since, it has only gotten worse. 20% are attacked violently in the real world following online abuse and threats.

The friends of friends algorithm for growth will move you further right or left if you start out either for or against Trump. Inflation and border crossings may be at its lowest since 2021. Those facts don’t break through. But white replacement theory does. Racism and sexism dominates.

Social media machine learning and generative AI make up the the biggest dangers. It changes the way we feel, see the world and the way we act. Lies spread 6x faster and 75% of us as humans will go with what we see others doing even if we know it’s wrong. The ecosystem rewards the worst of humanity.

Ressa: An atom bomb blew up in our information systems. We are standing now on the rubble. The shift from the excel sheet to big data is important. The tech behind this atom bomb are essential to understand

The Reykjavik Index for leadership shows that a well funded and coordinated campaign to denigrate women and other “minority leaders” is working. “They are doing this on purpose” to consolidate power in the hands of the few. #PowerTogether

Here is the Sec General of the UN with this warning:

If we want to stop the backslide, Urgent action is needed now to address:
- gender-based violence
- freedom of speech for journalists + activists alike
- transparency, accountability on digital platforms: deep fakes, hate speech, abuse

It’s the morning here in Iceland and it was grounded in the leadership of current and former women Presidents around the world. Here is Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.