 |
News 2007
Find all information about the International Young BPW Congress under
"Events"
News
Looking back to the years 2005 and 2006
| 19 decembre 2005 |
Report on World Summit on Information Society
By: Rooma Para
Download Report
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
Upcoming
Young BPW International Meeting
The 5th Young BPW International
meeting will take place in May 2007 in Soul, South
Korea, in conjunction with BPW Asia Pacific Regional
meeting. More details will be announced as the
details get finalized.
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
Report
on Visit to South Korea, 19-28th August:
By Miss. Rooma Para, Chairperson Young BPW
In the last week of August, two prestigious events took place in South Korea,
APEC Forum on Digital Economy for Women and 10th Women Leaders Network (WLN)
Meeting. I took these events as great opportunity of achieving multiple goals,
which included active participation and promotion of BPW & Young BPW at these
events, networking and learning opportunity, meeting BPW and Young BPW Korea,
Planning and advertising upcoming Young BPW International meeting.
Click here to read more about it.
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
Young
BPW highlighted in "The Woman Times" Newspapers
"The Woman Times" http://www.iwomantimes.com/
newspaper - published two-column full-length news item highlighting BPW and Young BPW and the upcoming meeting, in Korean and English Language, on August 24, 2005. Click here to download complete news story
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
4. Meeting with Young BPW Korea
The Young BPW Chairperson Miss. Roma Para met the Young BPW Korea Chairperson Enumee Hawang, Young BPW Rep. Kim, Min Seong and Young BPW Korea members. She was invited to attend a lecture on leadership, where an honorable professor was invited as guest speaker. The professor said that a good leader should have qualities like social sensitivity, good memory, sense of humor, interpersonal skills, give good impression, complement others, have good communications skills and creativity. The Professor also mentioned what a leader should not have, which includes Fatigue, Frustrations, unstable family, lack of finance.
At the end Miss. Rooma Para was asked to share
my thoughts on leadership. She elaborated on
what the professor initiated and shared experiences
and gave examples from my own life and elaborated
on how Young BPW International proves to be a
great platform for inculcating leadership qualities
in its members. She also shared details about
the upcoming Young BPW International meeting
and how it has been organized in the past, asked
for cooperation and ideas and it was very encouraging
to see the interest of Young BPW Korea.
(Click
to see photos one and two)
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
APEC Forum on Digital Economy for Women
APEC Forum on "Digital Economy for Women" was held at Sookmyung Women's University
in Seoul, Korea 22-23 August, 2005 http://webiz.women.or.kr/forum.
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Ministry of Commerce, Industry and
Energy of Korea hosted this event. It was organized by Asia Pacific Women's Information
Network Center (APWINC) and supported by Business & Professional Women International
and other esteemed APEC and Korean organizations. Dr. Chonchanok Viravan and
Miss. Rooma Para were invited as speakers at this event. The title of Dr. Nok's
presentation was "Strategies of Online Banking Service". The title of my presentation
was "E-Business Training - An ongoing endeavor to Empower Women".
The findings of this forum were reported in the form of recommendations to
APEC Women Leader Network (WLN), Electronic Commerce Steering Group
(ECSG), Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) and Gender Focal Point Network
(GFPN). At the end of the forum, opening ceremony of “APEC
Women’s E-Business Center” took place. This center will act as
hub of R&D and training & development related activities for women
entrepreneurs in the field of E-Business. Minister of Commerce, Industry and
Energy Korea was invited as chief guest.
Click
here to download
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
APEC 10th Women Leaders Network (WLN)
The 10th Women Leaders Network (WLN) http://www.2005apecsme.org meeting
as well which took place in Daegu city of Korea from 23 - 27 August 2005. The
First Lady of Korea was the chief guest. The theme of this event was "Prosperity
of Women Enterprises through innovation; New visions for Women Entrepreneurs".
Sub-themes included Micro-credit Policies and Programs for Women Enterprises
Development, Co-Prosperity through Growing the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs,
Access to innovative ICT Technology; U-World for Women Entrepreneurs and Promote
Trade through Networking. Dr. Chonchanok Viravan and Miss. Rooma Para participated
in this meeting. We met many strong women leaders from APEC economies and it
was inspiring to get to know about their initiatives. The event proved to be
great networking opportunity and a platform for promoting BPW, Young BPW, upcoming
Young BPW meeting and possibility of collaborations
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
APEC Women e-Biz Training in Korea during 24-30 July 2005:
By Mrs. Naphaphen Vejjajiva Young BPW - Bangkok Chairperson
There were a total of 33 people who attended the APEC Women e-Biz Training Program (APWeBiz) in Korea, out of which 15 are BPW members from various countries such as Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
Click here to read complete report.
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
Young
BPW Representative for Asia Pacific is off to
Cambodia to work for the United Nations World
Food Program
Anna Rasalingam, Young BPW Representative for Asia Pacific is off to Cambodia to work for the United Nations World Food Program, providing project management expertise in various food distribution projects in Cambodia. This is her dream job. Good Luck Anna!
|
| 2nd october
2005 |
Wedding
of Yasmin Garciadealba, Young BPW Representative
for North America & Non-Spanish Speaking Countries
of the Caribbean
Yasmin Garciadealba, Young BPW Representative for North America & Non-Spanish Speaking Countries of the Caribbean recently got married in Lebanon. Congratulations to Yasmin & Danny. May you live happily ever after!
|
| 20th august 2005 |
This article was
published in the alumni magazine
of INWENT, the organisation which provided Christine
Heinze a scholarship to go to Japan,
Wherein here involvement with BPW is tackled as
well.
Download the articel in German
Download the articel in English
Download the articel in Spanish
|
| 9th may 2005 |
Seminar on "E-Business and Opportunities for Women
Report By: Rooma Para
Report, presentation and pictures of the seminar on E-Business that I recently attended.
|
| 5th march
2005 |
Commission on the Status
of Women
The 49th Commission on the Status of Women
is currently taking place in
New York. For those unable to attend, you can
see what is happening via
online webcasts. If you would like to see the
discussions and speeches
from the Opening Ceremony, and follow events
as they happen live,
contact Faye (faye.northan@wretched.demon.co.uk) and
she will send you the links.
|
| 5th march
2005 |
Women in Power and
Decision-Making
You can now read the contributions
from Young BPW Germany to the Beijing
+10 initiative Women in Power and Decision-Making
online at
http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=930&Itemi!
|
| 5th march
2005 |
Young BPW Germany Membership
The membership
of Young BPW Germany has now risen to an amazing
10%! Congratulations to all the members who have
worked so hard to achieve
this!!
Following a survey conducted by Viktoria Balensiefen
and Ulrike Kessler
last December, it was also discovered that 75%
of the Young BPWs are
over 30. Young BPW Germany is now concentrating
on ways of encouraging
younger women to become members.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
