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Internet governance in Africa - #AfriSIG2015 #GIGxAfrica #IGF2015

Posted Thu 3 Sep 2015 - 12:45 | 4,735 views
In order to strengthen internet governance in Africa, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is organising a series of events to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during September 2015. Follow them here.
Natasha Msonza

Natasha is the Operations Manager at Her Zimbabwe.

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Barriers to women’s participation on the internet evolve with increased ‘access’

Posted Thu 3 Sep 2015 - 11:56 | 13,820 views
In the opening session at this year’s Gender and Internet Governance eXchange (gigXAfrica), participants highlighted some key questions they had that they hoped would be answered during the exchange. One participant innocently asked: if the internet is free for all, how are women really marginalized in that space? This is my attempt at a calm response to this question that I am slowly realising…
Mary Kiio

Mary Kiio is a Trainer of Trainers on various democracy and governance topics including: Conflict

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Online safety is critical

Posted Tue 1 Sep 2015 - 08:31 | 4,610 views
I attended my first workshop on online safety about two years ago. The sessions were practical. I learned how to protect my passwords, how to surf online in a way that will not have my privacy invaded, how to use the spectrogram exercise to discuss difficult issues, among many other things. But the most important part was that I was able to learn how to share this information with others…
Beatrice Martini

Beatrice is the Human Rights Technology Lead at Aspiration.

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An intersectional take on technology, rights and justice

Posted Sun 30 Aug 2015 - 18:37 | 7,510 views
There’s a word – which is an entire multi-faceted concept in itself – which comes to my mind very often, whether I’m reading the news, working, talking with loved ones or following someone’s train of thoughts online. Intersectionality.
Nyx

Nyx McLean is a caffeine-fueled transdisciplinary researcher who writes queerly about the interne

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The digital age: A feminist future for the queer African woman

Posted Wed 26 Aug 2015 - 07:22 | 5,376 views
Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Nyx McLean recently published an article in The IDS Bulletin, The Digital Age: A Feminist Future for the Queer African Woman. The article draws attention to digital communities and how they afford the queer African woman the space to express her lived experience.
Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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Nudies, #FreeTheNipple and online laughter

Posted Tue 25 Aug 2015 - 04:16 | 3,332 views
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…
Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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Google renamed, 800 sites banned and no girl wins

Posted Tue 11 Aug 2015 - 07:00 | 3,397 views
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…
Sajia Afreen Smita

Sajia Afreen Smita is working as a learning facilitator at the world’s largest non-government org

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Participation in the gigX and APrIGF in Macau: Learning and experience

Posted Sat 8 Aug 2015 - 13:15 | 5,026 views
As the representative of Take Back the Tech! Bangladesh I took the opportunity to give a presentation on the topic- ‘Consent, autonomy and agency: Online violence’ from a Bangladeshi perspective. Case studies of online violence in Bangladesh, government initiatives, campaigns of Take Back the Tech! Bangladesh have been discussed in the presentation.

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Facebook domestication

Posted Fri 7 Aug 2015 - 03:03 | 2,986 views
From ISIS recruitments to the Arab Spring, the narrative around social media remains consistently simplistic: it’s a dynamic technology that creates change – both ‘good’ and ‘bad’. This is particularly true for claims about the technology’s potential to ‘liberate oppressed women’.
Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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The White Squad, DIY gynaecology and fake profiles

Posted Mon 20 Jul 2015 - 07:50 | 3,962 views
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…