SNAPSHOTS: Who is at the IGF II? Katerina Fialova

Katerina Fialova is a coordinator with the APC. She’s coordinating the gender and ICT policy portal called GenderIT.org. This means that she is working on regulation and policy there where gender and technology intersect. What that really means? It is like looking at how cellphones for instance, can best be used to inform women in rural areas. 

Katerina Fialova is a coordinator with the APC. She’s coordinating the gender and ICT policy portal called GenderIT.org.

This means that she is working on regulation and policy there where

gender and technology intersect. What that really means? It is like

looking at how cellphones for instance, can best be used to inform

women in rural areas. It also means advocating for taking back the

technology through the Take Back the Tech campaign, an initiative by

APC’s women’s programme (the APC WNSP) trying to eradicate violence

against women that is done through or with the help of technologies

such as the internet.

Katerina is from Prague, Czech Republic and works for APC from there.

She also performs research and mobilises women in her country to

express themselves online, among other things. She has been using her

skills to organise a workshop on content regulation during the IGF. It

was called “Content regulation and the

duty of states to protect

fundamental rights” and by the way, a huge success in terms of laying

dowan the complexity of regulating the web for the common good.

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