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WSIS Forum 2012: TV White Spaces on the agenda
From 14-18 May Geneva will be hosting the WSIS Forum 2012, where the Association for Progressive Communications has organised two thematic workshops on May 17th, one of them under the subject Television White Spaces.
Feminist Talks @ AWID: Soweto #RapeVideo: I don’t create or forward violence!
In a trend that is becoming all too familiar, distribution of an alleged gang rape video has again made the news this week.
Feminist Talks @ AWID: MENA: Who talks for the region?
I am an AWID participant, and it is my first time to attend the forum.
2012 Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group members announced
Announced this week, APC’s executive director Anriette Esterhuysen and Lillian Nalwoga from APC member organisation Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) were appointed to the 2012 Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG).
Feminist Talks @ AWID: Last Rescue in Siam: A comedy about anti-trafficking raids in Thailand
Empower Foundation of Thailand has creatively used art and media to promote the rights of sex workers for over 20 years. Empower has collaborated with artists to bring their messages to people in Thailand, in cartoons, in nearly life-size papier mache dolls that are more well traveled than the sex workers they represent, and in their own books.
Feminist Talk @ AWID: Filtered by the state, inspired by Gita Sen
The convention center is big, enormous, 2500 women from all over the world to attend the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development. It’s my first AWID, usually I avoid these overwhelming conventions but this time I couldn’t say no.
Feminist Talk @ AWID: Anonymize yourself: digital security and feminist practice of technology
From the 16th to the 18th of April I attended a pre-event to the 12th AWID forum that was focusing on the intersection between information and communication technology, the internet and feminist practices, and that was interrogating privacy and security in online spaces and on our devices.
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Feminist Talk @ AWID: Thinking about gender and technology
I am sitting at AWID in Istanbul and digesting the first day, as well as the Feminist Tech Exchange which happened the day before. I am also getting used to the Turkish keyboard which is limiting my punctuation use.
Critically absent: Women in internet governance. A policy advocacy toolkit
The women’s movement has always had the ability to make the invisible visible and grant it a political character. This toolkit encourages women and their organisations to engage in political discussions regarding internet development with a vision of inclusion, fairness and respect for women’s rights. The authors’ visions are that the toolkit be used to raise awareness and encourage participation in a new environment where women cannot and should not be absent.
APC at the 12th international AWID Forum
APC members and staff will be participating in the 12th international forum by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) in Istanbul, Turkey from 19-22 April 2012. The theme is “Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice”, and APC Women’s Networking Support Programme will be hosting a number of workshops and pre-events on the feminist practices and politics of the internet.
