1. Arab social media report states that there is a 'virtual' gender divide as only one-third of the Facebook users in the Arab region are women in stark contrast to women being around half of the users globally. Arab men and women consider social media as a tool of empowerment. However, the prevailing gap in Arab women's usage of social media compared to men and to the global average is primarily a result of perceived societal and cultural constraints Arab women continue to face in real life. To read more - click here.
2. Crowd funding is catching up with the Indian film-makers. Crowd funding is enabling entrepreneurs to raise money for your projects in an innovative manner. This concept started in France in 2004. Indian producers like Guneet Monga and Anurag Kashyap are pioneers of the Bollywood industry to resort to crowd funding. Guneet Monga plans to raise Rs.1 crore through crowd funding for her next movie 'Julia'. To read more - click here.
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