HON'BLE DR. SHIRIN SHARMIN CHAUDHURY

It is a tremendous experience to be amongst such distinguished women from more than 55 countries around the globe, to share and discuss how technology can be an aid in ensuring the empowerment of women. The beauty of the theme is actually embedded in how to connect Spirituality and Technology and that is what one aspires to learn in this 3 day-long conference. She was impressed to see all the different projects and endeavours of the Art of Living. She appreciated the work on women empowerment, disaster and climate change management and many other issues, particularly in promoting Human Values. Women's development is no longer an isolated issue but it is smart economics and as a representative of Bangladesh, she was there to share the mutual experiences and best practices in the respective countries in ensuring gender equality, mainstreaming gender, in the development agenda and combine Human Values and Spirituality in using technology to empower lives

Sound Bites

• Women hold up half the sky, women are active agents of social and economic transformation.