- One problem facing digital media is that many do not see it as a secure means to

communicate
- Facebook can be used in advocacy activities, nonetheless this is not the case for more
sensitive organizing: top strategies were set in by leadearship committees that gathered in
hubs like Cairo with these leaders distributing handwritten documents to their
collaborators.
- Due to social medias horizontal and non-hierarchical structure the women were also
empowered, being engaged in online activism and citizen journalism and also
participating in demonstrations and protests.
- For exemple, a quarter of the one million protesters in Tahrir Square were women,
upending traditional expectations of their behavior.
- Thus, Egyptian women are mobilizing to ensure a gender inclusive democracy that
provides them with full social and political rights.
- Social media has served as a platform for civic engagement, especially for women
with one activist, Bothaina Kamel, a former television anchor, using Twitter to announce
her plans for running for presidency.
- Another Egyptian blogger and activist Dalia Ziada, says that social media will be vital in
building a democracy that respects the rights of women and minorities. Feeling it will
provide a virtual forum that will lead to more tolerance and exchanges of ideas and
stating that when debating online people do not care whether you are a man or a woman,
if you come from an upper-class family or a poor one, but about your point of view and
what one has to say.
question of a civil versus a religious state, said, When you debate with someone online,