Secure Online Communications
Take Back the Tech! 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women
Posted October 7th, 2009 by editorAll over the world, internet and ICT users – especially girls and women – are invited to use technology to Take Back the Tech! and end violence against women.
http://www.takebackthetech.net
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IGF session: Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights - Privacy, Agency & Security
Posted September 9th, 2009 by editorThe APC WNSP has proposed a session at the fourth gathering of the Internet Governace Forum to be held in Egypt this year. Entitled “Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights – Privacy, Agency & Security”.
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Making the link between technology, violence against women and MDG3
Mobiles equipped with cameras are being used to peep up girl’s skirts as they climb on board buses. The same “emergency alert” button to send a distress signal from a cell phone is also connected to a global positioning system signal that allows women’s movements to be closely monitored by their spouses. Hundreds of Indian women denounce street sexual harassment in the Blank Noise Project Blogathon, many snapping shots of “Eve-teasing” aggressors.
Keep your chats exactly that! New campaign raises awareness on ICT safety for girls
“Keep your chats exactly that!” is a youth campaign run by Girls’Net, a daughter project of Women’sNet, to raise awareness among young people about the safe use of mobile phones, chats, and other social networking tools.
Media and ICT Caucus Statement at the Asia-Pacific High-Level Meeting on Beijing + 10
Media and ICT Caucus, APNGO Forum] – The Media and ICT Caucus wish to state from the outset our reaffirmation of the commitments of the BPFA and the Cairo Programme of Action, and their Plus 5 documents.
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
The following is a report from the Asia-Pacific Women’s Watch onsite report of the B+10 Intergovernmental High Level Meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. Daily reports from the HLM will be available through the APWW-mailing list, and will also be made available from the APNGO-Forum website at http://ap-ngo-forum.isiswomen.org
A Gender-responsive Information Society: A Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10 Agenda
Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy: implications for the women's movement
Achievements: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 is generally regarded as a watershed in understanding of information technology as a powerful tool that women could use for mobilization, information exchange, and empowerment. Beijing was also the first international conference at which substantive issues relating to women, information and communication technology were debated, albeit somewhat on the margins of the core agenda.
PULA Policy Focus: Trafficking, Pornography and Censorship On-line
CAPETOWN, South Africa [PULA, APC Africa Women] – In this edition of Pula, our regular policy focus column that looks at the major issues facing African women and their effective use of ICTs, our policy writer, Alice Munyua, explores the issues of trafficking, pornography and censorship online.
Paradoxically while the internet has proven to be an essential tool for global advocacy for ending violence against women and human rights abuses, it is also a medium through which prostitution and trafficking of women and girls is facilitated.
Action Alert! Stop Cyberbullying Day, March 30th
Increasingly, harassment and stalking is happening in and through digital communications technology.
