Since late 1998 we have been able to observe a true Internet boom in the German women's scene. Ever more networks, associations, and projects consider it important to have not only an email address, but if possible also a web-site. The reasons are obvious. The number of women in Germany using Internet and World Wide Web is visibly growing. Today the attitude has fundamentally changed.
People increasingly go online to find information on certain sub-jects, contacts, news.
Organizations have in turn recognized that their self-portrayal on the World Wide Web has to be taken seriously as public relations work. This is not just a question of image-building, but also corresponds to the heightened expectations for information we can generally observe with the Internet boom. Of the 4,300 German women's associations and initiatives that we included on our database in 1996, only 0.6 percent had a Web address. We know that at the moment, in spring of 1999, the number of women's associations and initiatives with a website has rapidly grown again. The demand for information quality on websites has also increased.