Multi-stakeholder inclusive ICT Policy Process urged to combat violence against women in cyberspace
With the goal to create awareness about information and communication technologies and violence against women in cyber space, and the implications of various government policies on women, a seminar titled “ICTs and Violence Against Women – Policy Implications” was jointly organized by Bytes for All (B4A) and the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) on 30 January 2010 in Lahore.
Mirando al 2009: avances en la tarea del PARM LAC
El trabajo del Programa de Apoyo a las Redes de Mujeres en América Latina y Caribe en 2009 logró avances que destacan contribuciones al campo de la capacitación en TIC, la evaluación de proyectos y la investigación social en el ciberespacio con perspectiva de género y feminista.
Take Back the Tech! grows louder through local campaigns in 2009
From 25 November to 10 December, the message came across loud and clear – whether it was via audiocast in Malaysia, chat relay in Brazil, protest march in Second Life, song-writing in Pakistan, calendars in Argentina, tweets in Mexico, posters in cybercafes in the Congo, or a mural on the streets of Soweto in South Africa. In over a dozen languages and through all platforms and medium both online and off, people took control of technology to end violence against women during the Take Back the Tech! campaign.
Dominican Republic guarantees women's equality in technology initiatives and policies across the country using APC GEM
The Dominican Republic is the first Latin American country to act on their commitments to involve women in the information society nationwide. This Caribbean island nation of ten million has promised to include a “gender perspective” in every information and communications technology initiative and policy developed by the government from now on. The tool the Dominicans have
chosen to design and evaluate all the public policies is the APC gender evaluation methodology (GEM).
Take Back the Tech! video in South Africa
Women’sNet, with partner, Artists Say No to Violence Against Women and Children, held an event in Soweto, Johannesburg. They used the occasion of International Human Rights Day, which marks the last day of the 16 Days of Activism to draw attention to the role that new media has to play both as a tool for abuse and as a tool for protest.
Pakistani activists tweet and sing against violence against women
Pakistani activists, led by Bytes for All and the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA), are taking over the internet cloud and radio airwaves during the 16 days of activism to end violence against women (VAW) in the Pakistan Take Back the Tech! campaign.
Jehan Ara, P@SHA president, is leading “tweeples” in constant tweeting and blogging until violence against women is better addressed in her country.
Take Back the Tech! mural in Soweto
Women’sNet has just completed painting a mural in Soweto, Chris Hani Bargwanath Hospital wall. The aim of this activity is to launch a global campaign, Take Back the Tech The campaign which calls on all ICT users – especially women and girls – to take control of technology and strategically use any ICT platform at hand (mobile phones, instant messengers, blogs, websites, digital cameras, email, podcasts and more) for activism against gender-based violence.
Take Back the Tech! 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women
From 25 November to 10 December, get ready to click your mouse, flex your SMS fingers and engage full energy to take control of technology to end violence against women. 
APC’s Women’s Programme calls on users of the radio, television, internet, emails and mobile phones to Take Back the Tech!
Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista en Buenos Aires
Del 16 al 18 de noviembre se realiza el taller de Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista con la participación de 35 representantes de grupos de mujeres del noreste y sur del país, más 8 instructoras a cargo de los módulos de capacitación. Este intercambio tecnológico intensivo abarca cuatro áreas de comunicación utilizando las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación: audio, imagen y video, arte gráfico digital y trabajo en redes sociales por internet. La actividad se desarrolla en las dependencias de la Librería de Mujeres, en Buenos Aires.
The MDG3 in the Language of Beijing
The MDG3 in the Language of Beijing: A Blog Series
by Lalaine P. Viado
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are not stand alone goals that sprung up with the new millennium. Particularly MDG3: Gender Equality, this goal is but a chip off the block from the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The BPA was the result of the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 with the strong global backdrop and recognition that women’s rights are human rights in 1993 at the World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna Conference). CEDAW, on the other hand, is much older and a treaty binding document signed by 130 countries as early as 1979 and came into force, the fastest among all UN instruments, in 1981. The CEDAW, otherwise known as the international bill of rights for women, was brought to bear by an earlier Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women drafted in 1965 and adopted in 1967.
Nigerian feminist blogger wins scholarship to BlogHer '09 conference
Toyin Ajao-Dawodu from Nigeria is so into women blogging she helps run a technology camp for girls in Nigeria coordinated by her organisation, Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. Together with W.Tech’s Executive Director, Oreoluwa Somolu, she co-facilitated the workshop “Blogs can move the world” at last year’s Association for Women in Development’s Forum on Movement Building.
