Training

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: , con algunas secciones en castellano y en francés. El ITF es una iniciativa tanto de mujeres que militan por sus derechos como de mujeres que trabajan por una tecnología con perspectiva de género.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) is launching its new website . The FTX is both a training initiative for women’s rights advocates and a community of feminist and technology activists. The FTX was developed by the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) in response to calls from feminist and women’s rights movements for greater understanding of emerging technologies, their potential and impact on the rights and lives of women.

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.

The women belong to the group TIAME, a farming group in the village of Peko-Misegese, in Morogoro. “TIAME” is the local language for “lets us work together”. This group produces various crops including vegetables, beans, sunflower and round potatoes but accessibility to market information is a big problem.

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.

Listen in on the debate around the feminist practices and politics of technology at the FTX through Radio FIRE’s live broadcast. The FTX is all about discussion and hands-on practice, so when plenary is not in session, Radio FIRE’s mikes will go roving to see how women from around the world are using the internet for advocacy and activism.

To hear the live broadcast or download the audio files later visit Radio Feminista

More than 100 women’s rights activists from 46 countries are converging on Cape Town 10 – 12 November to harness the creative and strategic use of video, audio, social networking platforms, digital storytelling, mobile phones and community wireless networks for women’s transformation, activism, advocacy and movement building at the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX).

The Feminist Tech Exchange 10-12 November