Women in tech has been a topic of discussion since the Silicon Valley boom of 2000. Women have been highly under-represented in the tech space and a majority of companies are male dominated. This has given rise to a lot of criticism, attacking Silicon Valley for its practices and not many have heard of much change. Until, now.
If Silicon Valley continues to fail to represent women in the industry professionally and well, then they will go elsewhere. And, they have. A new startup has launched out of Estonia, headed by Kaili Kleemier, who has it's sights on making remote working teams that much smarter.
Kaili, ex-Sype employee and former head of operations, has ventured out on her own to enter the telecommunications space in a new innovative way. Deekit, is a new online-based whiteboard that teams can use to throw around ideas and work collaboratively.
This idea spawned as Kaili examined the problems that remote teams face when working across borders and time-zones. She found that the current market does enough to share information across a wide range of networks, however, in times of crisis, communication can become blurred and holes can end up ruining a teams project within minutes.
That's where Deekit comes in. Kaili found extreme value in bringing back the classic classroom whiteboard for explaining ideas visually and she and her team set their focus on developing a product that could be used on any browser across the world.
Deekit provides you with all the tools a classic whiteboard would have such as drawing and sketching notes with a few extras. The extras include templates such as business plans and product roadmaps that virtual teams can use to collaborate much more successfully.
It's still in it's beta version, but you can gain access to it through their website: https://www.deekit.com/
I actually just signed-up to use the product while writing this post. So, I'm going to go play around on it and if you do too, let me know what you think!
Best as always,
-BQ
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