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Violence Against Women and ICTs
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.
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Get into the GEM zone! Join 40 GEM practitioners as they put GEM to work on ICT4D projects: in rural areas, telecentres, on national policy and localisation projects.
Paddling in Circles While the Waters Rise: Gender Issues in ICTs and Poverty Reduction
Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?
About the APC Women's Networking Support Programme
Who We Are
We are a global network of women who support women networking for social change and women’s empowerment, through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
We promote gender equality in the design, development, implementation, access to and use of ICTs and in the policy decisions and frameworks that regulate them.
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Feminist practices of technology: What’s your approach?
March 8 is International Women’s Day. Tell us how you use technology as a feminist. Celebrate International Women’s Day by sharing your practice and politics on twitter. Create a buzz and add your story on how you use the internet, mobile phones and other communications technology for women’s rights and empowerment.
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Relanzamiento del sitio web del Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista
En celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el Intercambio Tecnológico Feminista (ITF, FTX por sus siglas en inglés) está lanzando su nuevo sitio web:
Feminist Tech Exchange Reboots
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) is launching its new website
Talking about Section J: Women Producing Media
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls from FemLink Pacific talks to Jan Moolman about Section J during the 15-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action in New York. “Section J is not just about women and the media, it is about media and communications systems.”
“It is talking about appropriate use of ICT...from Flip cameras to suitcase radio, women developed that policy and we need to reclaim it not just as media activists but also as the women’s movement. The rest of the women’s movement also needs to engage with Section J and work with women who are working on Section J…. if no one else is going to broadcast or publish it, we will.”
Women in and out of Media
Bhagwan-Rolls, from Femlink Pacific, was at one of the few events that dealt with “section J” (the only part of the Platform of Action that deals with media and ICTs) in the Beijing+15 meetings that are going on in New York till March 12. At the 29th floor of a sky-scraper near UN headquarters, with an incredible view of Manhattan’s sunset, a team of media and gender activists (coordinated by the World Association of Christian Communication) presented the preliminary findings of their global report on women in the media. Analia Lavin blogs for GenderIT.org’s Feminist Talk.
Witnessing J-spot
Jan Moolman reporting from CSW..
I’m at the UN building in New York attending the 54th CSW and have just uploaded two videos to my online account. It took 3 minutes to upload. The videos share the impressions of two women’s rights activists working in and with media about what is happening with Section J at the CSW. They took four minutes to record. So, in seven minutes I was able to get quotes from women who spoke with authority about a newsworthy issue and distribute them as part of a package of news about gender (in)equality and the media.
