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Se han naturalizado nociones que, en definitiva, buscan consolidar un tipo de mirada sobre el derecho de autor y la propiedad intelectual que excluye a las mujeres, a sus formas de expresión y a su reivindicación personal y colectiva, y que limita sus capacidades expresivas. ¿Irrumpimos con perspectiva feminista? Es hora de quebrar con viejos paradigmas.

Ya lo sabemos: que las mujeres todavía no podamos abortar o que se nos dificulte el tener acceso a la educación sexual integral es consecuencia de la sociedad patriarcal en la que vivimos, como hace no muchas décadas atrás era el hecho de que no pudiéramos votar, ser propietarias de bienes o tener la patria potestad sobre los hijos.

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Se han naturalizado nociones que, en definitiva, buscan consolidar un tipo de mirada sobre el derecho de autor y la propiedad intelectual que excluye a las mujeres, a sus formas de expresión y a su reivindicación personal y colectiva, y que limita sus capacidades expresivas. ¿Irrumpimos con perspectiva feminista? Es hora de quebrar con viejos paradigmas.

Ya lo sabemos: que las mujeres todavía no podamos abortar o que se nos dificulte el tener acceso a la educación sexual integral es consecuencia de la sociedad patriarcal en la que vivimos, como hace no muchas décadas atrás era el hecho de que no pudiéramos votar, ser propietarias de bienes o tener la patria potestad sobre los hijos.

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Se han naturalizado nociones que, en definitiva, buscan consolidar un tipo de mirada sobre el derecho de autor y la propiedad intelectual que excluye a las mujeres, a sus formas de expresión y a su reivindicación personal y colectiva, y que limita sus capacidades expresivas. ¿Irrumpimos con perspectiva feminista? Es hora de quebrar con viejos paradigmas.

Ya lo sabemos: que las mujeres todavía no podamos abortar o que se nos dificulte el tener acceso a la educación sexual integral es consecuencia de la sociedad patriarcal en la que vivimos, como hace no muchas décadas atrás era el hecho de que no pudiéramos votar, ser propietarias de bienes o tener la patria potestad sobre los hijos.

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What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 for Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. This is an ongoing conversation between Erika Smith, from Take Back the Tech and APC-WRP with members of the collective Kéfir on infrastructure and the internet, labour in movements, and how to set up new collectives that have to exist within and with economic, social and political hegemonies.

What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 or Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. Tune into this ongoing conversation we will be nurturing here in the near future.

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What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 for Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. This is an ongoing conversation between Erika Smith, from Take Back the Tech and APC-WRP with members of the collective Kéfir on infrastructure and the internet, labour in movements, and how to set up new collectives that have to exist within and with economic, social and political hegemonies.

What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 or Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. Tune into this ongoing conversation we will be nurturing here in the near future.

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What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 for Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. This is an ongoing conversation between Erika Smith, from Take Back the Tech and APC-WRP with members of the collective Kéfir on infrastructure and the internet, labour in movements, and how to set up new collectives that have to exist within and with economic, social and political hegemonies.

What began as a small fundraising drive in July 2017 or Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op, has transformed into exploring the importance of feminist infrastructure in Latin America. Tune into this ongoing conversation we will be nurturing here in the near future.

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The sustainable development goals explicitly mention gender equality, yet how will this be achieved and how is this linked to the potentially transformative role that ICTs could play. If the SDGs are going to use ICTs as a vehicle to achieve the goals then we need to use an intersectional and multi-pronged approach to ensure that women, girls and other marginalized groups are not left behind.

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I recently attended the Sri Lankan Internet Governance Forum (IGF) where I spoke on a panel that discussed the linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Internet. My intervention was framed around two questions.

1. Technology and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been recognized as major drivers for achieving sustainable development and achieving targets across the SDGs. How are women and girls placed in this?




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The sustainable development goals explicitly mention gender equality, yet how will this be achieved and how is this linked to the potentially transformative role that ICTs could play. If the SDGs are going to use ICTs as a vehicle to achieve the goals then we need to use an intersectional and multi-pronged approach to ensure that women, girls and other marginalized groups are not left behind.

Short answer, everything

I recently attended the Sri Lankan Internet Governance Forum (IGF) where I spoke on a panel that discussed the linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Internet. My intervention was framed around two questions.

1. Technology and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been recognized as major drivers for achieving sustainable development and achieving targets across the SDGs. How are women and girls placed in this?




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The sustainable development goals explicitly mention gender equality, yet how will this be achieved and how is this linked to the potentially transformative role that ICTs could play. If the SDGs are going to use ICTs as a vehicle to achieve the goals then we need to use an intersectional and multi-pronged approach to ensure that women, girls and other marginalized groups are not left behind.

Short answer, everything

I recently attended the Sri Lankan Internet Governance Forum (IGF) where I spoke on a panel that discussed the linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Internet. My intervention was framed around two questions.

1. Technology and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been recognized as major drivers for achieving sustainable development and achieving targets across the SDGs. How are women and girls placed in this?




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Para muchos el tema de género es una moda, un capricho de unas cuantas que no estamos de acuerdo con los organizadores, la logística, en fin, no nos parece nada, al contrario, nos interesa, pero ¿por qué es necesario incluir de forma integral a la mujer en la Gobernanza de Internet?

“Pedacito de tierra! Tan alegre y soleado
Bajo el azul profundo de tu suelo estival,
Tú viniste a la vida como un predestinado,
Libre de toda mancha de culpa original.”
Fragmento de Pedacito De Tierra
de la poetisa panameña Nicole Garay

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Para muchos el tema de género es una moda, un capricho de unas cuantas que no estamos de acuerdo con los organizadores, la logística, en fin, no nos parece nada, al contrario, nos interesa, pero ¿por qué es necesario incluir de forma integral a la mujer en la Gobernanza de Internet?

“Pedacito de tierra! Tan alegre y soleado
Bajo el azul profundo de tu suelo estival,
Tú viniste a la vida como un predestinado,
Libre de toda mancha de culpa original.”
Fragmento de Pedacito De Tierra
de la poetisa panameña Nicole Garay

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Para muchos el tema de género es una moda, un capricho de unas cuantas que no estamos de acuerdo con los organizadores, la logística, en fin, no nos parece nada, al contrario, nos interesa, pero ¿por qué es necesario incluir de forma integral a la mujer en la Gobernanza de Internet?

“Pedacito de tierra! Tan alegre y soleado
Bajo el azul profundo de tu suelo estival,
Tú viniste a la vida como un predestinado,
Libre de toda mancha de culpa original.”
Fragmento de Pedacito De Tierra
de la poetisa panameña Nicole Garay

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Para muchos el tema de género es una moda, un capricho de unas cuantas que no estamos de acuerdo con los organizadores, la logística, en fin, no nos parece nada, al contrario, nos interesa, pero ¿por qué es necesario incluir de forma integral a la mujer en la Gobernanza de Internet?

“Pedacito de tierra! Tan alegre y soleado
Bajo el azul profundo de tu suelo estival,
Tú viniste a la vida como un predestinado,
Libre de toda mancha de culpa original.”
Fragmento de Pedacito De Tierra
de la poetisa panameña Nicole Garay

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As the Supreme Court of India determines the contours of the right to privacy and who in Indian territory has it, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma critiques many of the assumptions around the opposition to Aadhar. This critique is grounded in the differences of how surveillance and privacy are known and experienced by those who are vulnerable for varied reasons, but especially those who are migrants or Muslim.

Queing up for Aadhar. Image source: By Biswarup Ganguly, 2012 from Wikimedia Commons. CC license Attribution.

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As the Supreme Court of India determines the contours of the right to privacy and who in Indian territory has it, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma critiques many of the assumptions around the opposition to Aadhar. This critique is grounded in the differences of how surveillance and privacy are known and experienced by those who are vulnerable for varied reasons, but especially those who are migrants, Muslim or of lowered castes.

Queing up for Aadhar. Image source: By Biswarup Ganguly, 2012 from Wikimedia Commons. CC license Attribution.

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As the Supreme Court of India determines the contours of the right to privacy and who in Indian territory has it, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma critiques many of the assumptions around the opposition to Aadhar. This critique is grounded in the differences of how surveillance and privacy are known and experienced by those who are vulnerable for varied reasons, but especially those who are migrants, Muslim or of lowered castes.

Queing up for Aadhar. Image source: By Biswarup Ganguly, 2012 from Wikimedia Commons. CC license Attribution.

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Gendered barriers to internet access can range from social and cultural barriers imposed within family or by partners to extraneous factors relevant to all - such as affordability of data and devices. In this column Chenai Chair examines the specificity of how access is different for women and men.

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Connecting the next billion, is rightly so, an important issue in ensuring everyone has the choice to access the internet. Women, and in particular those with low levels of income and education, are more likely to be the unconnected. However, gaining access is one thing, but what are the challenges that limit men and women’s experience of the internet and present a barrier to access? In this penultimate article reflecting on the finding from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Rwanda, we look at the gendered barriers to internet access and use.

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Gendered barriers to internet access can range from social and cultural barriers imposed within family or by partners to extraneous factors relevant to all - such as affordability of data and devices. In this column Chenai Chair examines the specificity of how access is different for women and men.

Image source: author

Connecting the next billion, is rightly so, an important issue in ensuring everyone has the choice to access the internet. Women, and in particular those with low levels of income and education, are more likely to be the unconnected. However, gaining access is one thing, but what are the challenges that limit men and women’s experience of the internet and present a barrier to access? In this penultimate article reflecting on the finding from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Rwanda, we look at the gendered barriers to internet access and use.

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Gendered barriers to internet access can range from social and cultural barriers imposed within family or by partners to extraneous factors relevant to all - such as affordability of data and devices. In this column Chenai Chair examines the specificity of how access is different for women and men.

Image source: author

Connecting the next billion, is rightly so, an important issue in ensuring everyone has the choice to access the internet. Women, and in particular those with low levels of income and education, are more likely to be the unconnected. However, gaining access is one thing, but what are the challenges that limit men and women’s experience of the internet and present a barrier to access? In this penultimate article reflecting on the finding from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Rwanda, we look at the gendered barriers to internet access and use.

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In this column, Samukelisiwe explores how women in the global South have started using social media to make up for the lack of representation of black and brown women in mainstream media. Women of colour, people with disability, gender non conforming persons and others now use the internet to explore their image and their body, and form communities that celebrate different ways of being.

Image sources: Photograph(left) by Amanda Hirsch; Photograph(right) by Nicole Marie Edine. Licensed under CC Attribution

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