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DJ’s choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit.
“You don’t have to watch NCIS to know that almost everything we do leaves some kind of trail or trace. Every click of the internet and every post we make, email we send and file we download are all being tracked by someone somewhere. Unless, of course, it isn’t.” More >
Source: TechCrunch, Debbie Fletcher
The biggest myth about phone privacy
Do you know that cell phone companies look at your “private” information? You may say “But I didn’t sign up for this, is this legal? Actually, you did, and it is.” More >
Source: BBC.com, Molly Crain
The inspirational tech guru who’s owning cerebral palsy like a boss
“Disability doesn’t mean disadvantage. And Farida Bedwei, a celebrated software engineer from Ghana, is proof of that.” More >
Source: CNN, Lauren Said-Moorhouse
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people can now snatch a LGBT domain
There has been a growing acceptance of the LGBT community and now it may be getting a domain name of it’s own. Read our Feminist Talk around some of the implications of this when the debate started. More >
Source: betanews.com, Brian Fagioli
10 ridiculously sexist and dangerous laws from around the world
“In Guinea women are not allowed to have “a separate profession from that of her husband” if he objects.” More >
Source: HuffingtonPost, Soraya Chemaly
This is it from GenderIT.org DJ for this week! Enjoy it, share it, dig into it. Feedback is always welcome. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit
GenderIT.org, Women’s Rights Programme, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), February 16th 2015
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