Communication Rights
Blogs for African Women Project Gets Nigerian Women Hooked on Technology
APC Africa Women Member Wins Harambee Prize
Blogs for African Women (BAWo) has taken hold of the Nigerian blogging spirit to strengthen women’s activism. Oreoluwa Somolu, BAWo’s founder, sees blogging as a way to get women “hooked on technology”, and gain important skills for community and NGO leadership at the same time. Networking for Success, BAWo’s second initiative getting women into the blogosphere, has just been awarded an Harambee Small Grant to increase BAWo’s collaboration capacity.
Tools discussed: Gender and ICTs in education and communication
“The use of ICTs encourages and promotes different teaching and learning methods that are proving to be practical, functional, participatory and adaptable”, confirmed Vera Vieira, NGO coordinator.
Women and Philippine Media: At the Fringes of Freedom
Where are women located in the struggle for freedoms to express, create and disseminate information through ICTs as media?
TIC para los derechos de las mujeres: APC participa en Beijing +15
En 1995 se llevó a cabo la primera conferencia sobre la condición de la mujer en Beijing. Quince años después mujeres de todo el mundo se encontraron en Nueva York, del 1º al 12 de marzo. “Los medios y las comunicaciones han vivido verdaderas revoluciones desde Beijing”, dijo el programa de mujeres de APC en una declaración publicada por la agencia IPS. También exigió que la revisión afirmara “que el acceso de bajo costo a la información y al conocimiento, internet y otras tecnologías de la comunicación son críticos y fundamentales para los derechos de las mujeres”.
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.
¿Encontraremos el punto “J” de las mujeres durante la revisión de Beijing +15?
Maria Suárez hace referencia al “punto J” en un artículo donde analiza por qué la Sección J no fue un tema prioritario durante el encuentro de Beijing +10 en 2005. Cinco años después, ¿podemos decir que ahora si hay apoyo para los medios y las TIC de las mujeres? ¿Hay que “elegir” entre la batalla para terminar con la violencia contra las mujeres o erradicar la pobreza y la lucha por nuestro derecho a la libertad de expresión, el acceso a la información y el poder contar nuestras propias historias?
PolíTICas de GenderIT.org: Violencia contra las mujeres y TIC
PolíTICas, el boletín temático de GenderIT.org, continúa su analisis sobre la legislación y las políticas de TIC en relación a la violencia contra las mujeres (VCM) con 2 interesantes artículos que entrecruzan informes de 8 países, 4 de la región latinoamericana y el resto de Asia que documentan “la escasa comprensión que hay en ambas regiones sobre las conexiones entre la violencia de género y las TIC”, como destaca Jan Moolman, invitada de GenderIT.org en esta edición para redactar el editorial. Es en este marco que les pedimos prestar atención a la convocatoria de GenderIT.org para ayudarnos a unir los puntos entre Derechos . Violencia . Tecnología.También en esta edición, Vera Vieira y Jacira Melo nos traen bajo la forma de un interesante artículo lo cosechado por las mujeres brasileras en la I Conferencia Nacional de Comunicación (Confecom).
Women’s “J spot" at the Beijing +15 review
Maria Suárez refers to the “‘J’ spot” in an article exploring why Section J was not a priority issue during the 2005 Beijing +10 review. Five years later, can we claim that women’s media and ICTs are now supported? Do we still feel forced into ‘choosing’ between the struggle to end violence against women or eradicate poverty and the struggle for our rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and to tell our own stories? GenderIT.org guest editor Jan Moolman talks about looking for the “J spot” at the upcoming Beijing + 15 review during the 54th session of the Commission of the Status of Women.
Gender Centred: Violence against women and ICTs - part 2
GenderIT.org takes a cross-country look at violence against women (VAW) and ICT laws and policy in Asia and Latin America, based on country reports highlighted in GenderIT’s previous VAW and ICT edition. They show the connections between women’s rights, violence against women, and ICTs. Guest editor Jan Moolman questions if women’s “J Spot” will be present at the upcoming Beijing Platform for Action 15 year review. Kathleen Diga tracks expressions of gender and power relations between women and men in the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project research findings.
