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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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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.
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”.
GEM in Hard Times: Sectarian violence in Nigeria can be beaten
Since January, sectarian strife has ripped through Nigerian communities. “A mass burial took place the day before yesterday and body counts are close to three hundred with over 80% of them women and children,” APC member John Dada told APC. “It is ironic that in the month of the Celebration of Women’s Day, such atrocities are being visited on innocent women and children.” Women are culturally respected as the givers of life and John blames deepening poverty and economic alienation for the cultural reversal but he sees a potential solution.
First Cambodian Women Web Portal
Manavy Chim, Executive Director of Open Institute in Cambodia and APC WNSP partner in a 12-country project using ICTs to end violence against women (VAW) is interviewed by Sopheap Chak on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Open Institute’s women web portal is the first-ever of its kind in Khmer, and has made information on women’s rights and the reality of VAW available to more than 2000 visitors daily. Says Manavy:“It is imperative that women are able to draw on available resources to combat VAW. Access to ICT can be seen as central issue concerning empowerment of women.”
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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
