What 2002 Summit participants accomplished...

● "The greatest opportunity for our association was to participate in the creation of a confederation of Mediterranean women entrepreneurs’ associations."
 (Danielle Rousseau, President, Dirigeantes, France)

● "Because of the Summit, I managed to secure support for a water purification project from a Spanish government agency resulting from a meeting arranged by one of the Summit organizers, Adela Suberano. I was also able to share environment-related regulations which we developed in my country with a mining executive from Namibia at the Summit."
(Minister Mabudhafasi, Dept. of Environmental Protection and Tourism, South Africa).

●"The most productive thing was my meeting with a documentary film maker who is working on a project about women of Central Asia entitled ‘Other Borders – Women’s Outlook’. We discussed the first steps of organizational, technical and financial issues of the project, which we will gladly support.
(Gulnara Baimambetova, Krygysztan).

●"I will be establishing contact between organizations from the Balkans that are conducting programs for women’s entrepreneurship with women from Barcelona Activa.  
(Ivet Curlin, Croatia)

●"I met with a US broker interested in exporting our products. I had also good contacts with businesswomen from Turkemistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Georgia and Macedonia." 
(Christina Dimitrova, Bulgaria)

●"I have had talks with an Art Gallery owner in Tokyo and one in Beijing, who have expressed interest in possible professional collaborations in the future. There is also a possibility of working together on an art project with one of the European participants." 
(Donna Kelley, Spain)

●"I had the chance to meet a lot of women who are interested in introducing Delance in their country. I have the dream that one day Delance will be distributed all over the world by participants to the Global Summit of Women."
(Gisele Rufer, CEO, Delance, Switzerland)

●"I found marketing opportunities for polished diamonds with women jewel manufacturers in Barcelona and Kazakhstan."
(Inge Zaamwani, Namibia)

●"I made a contact with former Russian countries to establish and help in innovation for woman by franchising my company there."
(Sigfrid Thorisdottir, Iceland)