Women's Representation in Media
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.
IGF session: Content regulation, surveillance and sexuality rights - Privacy, Agency & Security
Posted Septiembre 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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Test Tyson: de la violencia en linea al repudio legislativo
En el blog de APC, Daphne Sabanes Plou, coordinadora regional del Programa de Mujeres de APC en América Latina, narra como el movimiento de mujeres y feminista en Argentina se apropió de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) para luchar contra la violencia hacia las mujeres.
International Women’s Day: Circle of Stories
Share your stories this International Women’s Day. Take Back The Tech invites you to listen, speak, recognise and remember.
To effect change, we need to understand the reality of violence against women.
The prevalence of violence against women means that chances are, all of us have encountered it in some way or another in our lives. Whether it’s our own personal experience, someone we know, a story we heard, or something we read.
8 MARS 2008: Journée internationale de la femme - Cercle d’histoires
Partagez vos histoires lors de cette journée internationale de la femme.
La campagne réapproprie-toi la technologie vous invite à écouter, parler, reconnaître et se souvenir.
Pour effectuer le changement, nous avons besoin de comprendre la réalité de la violence à l’égard des femmes.
Día internacional de las mujeres Círculo de relatos
Comparte tus experiencias y relatos en este día internacional de las mujeres. Dominemos la tecnología te invita a escuchar, hablar, reconocerte y recordar.
Para lograr un cambio necesitamos entender la realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres.
La contundente realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres hace que todas nosotras la hayamos encontrado o experimentado en algún momento de nuestras vidas, ya sea a través de nuestra propia experiencia, la de alguien que conocemos o de algo que escuchamos o leímos.
Mujeres Empoderadas por la Tecnología: blogs, wikis, mashups - herramientas liberadoras
Al igual que en América Latina y el Caribe, en México se vive un clima generalizado de violencia contra el género femenino, donde seis de cada diez mujeres son víctimas de algún tipo de violencia física, sexual, económica, psicológica, o verbal.
Breaking with tradition, African women dare to denounce violence through digital storytelling
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).
Digital Citizen Indaba and Highway Africa
Posted Septiembre 30th, 2007 by Sylvie75APC and APC Africa Women will be at Highway Africa 2007 this year with digital storytelling workshops, presentations on content, gender and ICTs, and the Take Back the Tech! Campaign.
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Women in the African Newsroom
Kristin Palitza of Agenda Magazine was the chair of a discussion panel on gender and the media today, September 11 2007, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Unlike most of the other panels at Highway Africa, this one lined up three women and no man. A mistake, by some participants’ standards but certainly a colourful and rather critical one in an event where only 15 out of 55 speakers are women.
