Women's Human Rights

In rural Latin America, women are fed up of hearing that they are “too old” to use computers. “ The lives of many women in Latin America have changed significantly in the past few decades. Rural women in their thirties have at least primary school education and know their rights thanks in many cases to community radio,” says APC’s Dafne Sabanes Plou. “They are ready for a place in today’s networked world.”

In rural Latin America, women are fed up of hearing that they are “too old” to use computers. “ The lives of many women in Latin America have changed significantly in the past few decades. Rural women in their thirties have at least primary school education and know their rights thanks in many cases to community radio,” says APC’s Dafne Sabanes Plou. “They are ready for a place in today’s networked world.”

GEM es una metodología de evaluación que integra el análisis de género a la evaluación de iniciativas que usan las TIC para el cambio social. Se trata de una herramienta de evaluación para determinar si las TIC realmente están mejorando o si están empeorando la vida de las mujeres y las relaciones de género, así como para promover un cambio efectivo a nivel individual, institucional, comunitario y social en general.

GEM se desarrolló desde las bases y ha implicado la colaboración de cientos de organizaciones comunitarias y de individuos desde que fue creada en 2002. La red creada incluye a la gente que desarrolló GEM, que capacita en el uso de GEM, que está adaptando la herramienta (para incrementar su uso en proyectos rurales de TIC para el desarrollo, telecentros, localización de software y activismo en políticas de TIC) y que están ofreciendo ahora evaluaciones GEM como un servicio de consultoría.

Integrantes de la red de GEM comparten acerca de los cambios en su visión de género y de TIC gracias a su aplicación de GEM. Leer más

GEM is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use ICTs for social change. It is an evaluation tool for determining whether ICTs are really improving or worsening women’s lives and gender relations, as well as for promoting positive change at the individual, institutional, community and broader social levels.

GEM has been developed from the ground up, and has involved the collaboration of hundreds of community-based organisations and individuals since its first design in 2002. The network that has developed includes people who developed GEM, who train in how to use GEM, who are adapting GEM to increase its applicability to rural ICT4D projects, telecentres, software localisation and ICT policy advocacy, and who are now offering GEM evaluations on a consultancy basis.

Members of the network share how GEM has changed their understanding of gender and the way they work with ICT. Read more

The APC Women’s Networking Support Programme joins the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) in their call to action and grave concern regarding the violent arrest of Shadi Sadr on the morning of Friday July 17th 2009.

AWID shares the following information and call to action:

He is leaning on a railing, looking cool and passing time. A girl walks by and he quickly follows her up the escalator. He then casually places his foot near hers on the same step. Only the observant can see a mobile phone strapped to his foot. The camera function does his ‘peeping’ for him, recording the underside of her skirt. But wait, the tables (and camera) are turned. The girl realises his trick and chases him down the escalator, with her friend capturing his act and face on her camera. His ‘secret’ act turned public as he is shamed and chased in front of the entire subway population.

Françoise Mukuku Mwamba Malale est coordonnatrice nationale de l’association Si Jeunesse Savait, basée à Kinshasa en République Démocratique du Congo. Au cours de cette entrevue, elle relève les actions menées par les jeunes féministes de République Démocratique du Congo dans le domaine des TIC.

Violence against women was the theme of a recent digital storytelling workshop organised by APC-Africa-Women and Women’sNet, held in Durban, South Africa from 25 to 29 August 2007. APC-Africa-Women is the African regional programme of the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), an international network of women who support women’s networking for social change and women’s empowerment through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).