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Working out access on our own: Community projects, gender and internet

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Tue, 05/02/2017 - 00:00

As our cities turn smart and countries turn digital the gender gap in terms of internet access is disturbing. The lack of access directly relates to the loss of rights of women and minorities. Sadly there is a long way to go before we close this gap. Chinmayi S K explores projects that attempted in innovative ways to address the digital gender gap online.

Image from Rights Con Brussels 2017 website

Wikipedia describes internet access as “the process that enables individuals and organisations to connect to the internet using computer terminals, computers, mobile devices, sometimes via computer networks“.

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Working out access on our own: Community projects, gender and internet

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Tue, 05/02/2017 - 00:00

Image from Rights Con Brussels 2017 website

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A place for all: On being diverse and inclusive @RightsCon

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Fri, 04/28/2017 - 10:27

More than 1,500 business leaders, civil society advocates, policy makers, lawyers, bloggers, technologists, and users participated in RightsCon Brussels 2017 (March) and there were over 250 sessions related to human rights and technology. Serene Lim explores the ways in which inequity was addressed at the forum, and how exclusion and marginalisation were framed in various sessions.

Image from original work ‘Web Women Want’ by Willow Brugh. Licensed under cc-by-sa-2.0.

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A place for all: On being diverse and inclusive @RightsCon

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Fri, 04/28/2017 - 10:27

Image from original work ‘Web Women Want’ by Willow Brugh. Licensed under cc-by-sa-2.0.

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The internet of Things: smart devices, quantified self, dolls and vibrators

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Thu, 04/27/2017 - 10:28

If an object has a chip, it becomes smart, and by extension our houses become smarter - and so do our cities, hospitals, toys, phones. But what about the inventors, the creators, the owners, the users of all these smart and tiny things - are we becoming smarter? Reflecting on sessions in Rights Con 2017 in Brussels, Vale examines the ways in which the internet of things can lead to invasive datafication and surveillance, and violate internet rights.

Image by Namita Aavriti, courtesy Cayla the hackable doll

If an object has a chip, it becomes smart, and by extension our houses become smarter – and so do our cities, hospitals, toys, phones. But what about the inventors, the creators, the owners, the users of all these smart and tiny things – are we becoming smarter?

I am fascinated by the ubiquitous ability of internet technologies to animate things, transform them into hubs, bypass walls and diminish distances.

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The internet of Things: smart devices, quantified self, dolls and vibrators

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Thu, 04/27/2017 - 10:28

Image by Namita Aavriti, courtesy Cayla the hackable doll

I am fascinated by the ubiquitous ability of internet technologies to animate things, transform them into hubs, bypass walls and diminish distances.

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10 ways to make Twitter work for feminist activism

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Tue, 04/25/2017 - 13:25

How to bring the powerful agency and discourse of women's rights movements and feminism to the digital age of Twitter and other social media. Samukelisiwe Mabaso has researched on various movements across Africa and Asia that successfully and effectively use technology, and shows us ten ways in which to make Twitter work for feminist activism. Lets get in formation!

Audre Lorde. Image source

I decided to do a little exercise, I typed #feminism in Twitter’s search bar and the top tweet that came up was this comic that immediately spoke to me.

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10 ways to make Twitter work for feminist activism

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Tue, 04/25/2017 - 13:25

Audre Lorde. Image source

I decided to do a little exercise, I typed #feminism in Twitter’s search bar and the top tweet that came up was this comic that immediately spoke to me.

!{width:400px}http://www.genderit.org/sites/default/upload/brown_paperbag_comic.jpg((Screenshot by author.

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[Columna] Feminismo en tiempos digitales: dejando atrás prácticas machistas

genderit-feninist talk-es - Mon, 04/24/2017 - 22:17

La vida en internet es agitada, muchas veces agresiva. ¿Cómo actuamos las mujeres? ¿También nos dejamos llevar por las demostraciones de poder y dominación? Ser solidarias es aprender otros lenguajes. ¿Podemos hablar de sororidad feminista en internet? Comencemos a debatirlo....

En México tenemos un refrán que dice “mujeres juntas, ni difuntas” quiere decir que las mujeres no podemos trabajar/colaborar en equipo por razones diferentes como: la envidia, celos, protagonismo, entre muchas otras, los refranes tienen una carga cultural y una tradición machista que nos recuerda que los pactos del mundo fueron construidos por hombres.

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[Columna] Feminismo en tiempos digitales: dejando atrás prácticas machistas

Análisis feminista de las políticas de internet - Mon, 04/24/2017 - 22:17

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[COLUMN] Open software movements, open content, free culture: Where are the women?

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Tue, 04/18/2017 - 11:31

The gender balance is far from equal even in progressive movements such as the free and open source software community, Mozilla user groups, and others. Despite all the rivers of ink that were written about the gender imbalance in these areas, the changes are slow to arrive.

In 2011 a study by GroupLens revealed the gender imbalance on Wikipedia, and there was an outpouring of articles in the global media about the notorious absence of women in the world’s largest virtual encyclopedia. At that point the Wikimedia Foundation set in motion an ambitious plan to try to incorporate more women. Above all, user groups appeared, making it their business to get more women involved as their main goal.

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[COLUMN] Open software movements, open content, free culture: Where are the women?

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Tue, 04/18/2017 - 11:31

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De zombies a ninjas: infraestructura autónoma feminista

En profundidad de GenderIT.org - Fri, 04/14/2017 - 17:39

¿Es posible trabajar por una internet feminista en la cual las mujeres activistas, las que trabajan en derechos digitales y las que profundizan en el campo de la tecnología puedan crear puentes, diálogar y proyectarse hacia el horizonte? Preguntas que necesitan respuestas para fortalecer la influencia feminista en la web y en el desarrollo de infraestructura autónoma.

«Estamos llamando a todas las mujeres y personas no binarias que sean capaces de estar en solidaridad y huelga, para comprometerse a permanecer en casa y no conectarse a internet solo por un día. Reunirse en protesta por ser constantemente ignoradas, infravaloradas, mal pagadas y abiertamente atacadas por atrevernos a exigir dignidad y respeto básico.»
Difusión en “Derechos Digitales” de la huelga DdoW

De zombies a ninjas: infraestructura autónoma feminista

En profundidad de GenderIT.org - Fri, 04/14/2017 - 17:39

De zombies a ninjas: infraestructura autónoma feminista

Análisis feminista de las políticas de internet - Fri, 04/14/2017 - 17:39

[COLUMN] I want to be a Pokémon master

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Thu, 04/13/2017 - 10:18

Pokémon exploded as a game that could be played on mobile phones in 2016. Of the many debates around it, Angélica Contreras explores the gendered aspect of videogames and how Pokémon struck a chord with many women in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and parts of Latin America. This article was originally written in Spanish, and is part of a column series that explores young women and their lives immersed in technology.

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This article is part of a series of GenderIT.org columns, and here we feature translations from Spanish. Evelin Heidel from Argentina will share her experiences in gender, technology, programming and access; and Angelica Contreras from Mexico will write about young women and their lives immersed in technology.

I am AkiConterR and my companion is a “Pidgeotto” who I call “Pid”. I belong to Team Mystic; I am on level 7 and I have 53 Pokémons (72, actually, but some of them I transferred).

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[COLUMN] I want to be a Pokémon master

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Thu, 04/13/2017 - 10:18

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I am AkiConterR and my companion is a “Pidgeotto” who I call “Pid”. I belong to Team Mystic; I am on level 7 and I have 53 Pokémons (72, actually, but some of them I transferred).

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[COLUMN] Access and beyond: Navigating the gendered cyberspace

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Wed, 04/12/2017 - 10:18

In this column series, Chenai Chair explores the barriers to accessing the internet in four countries in Africa - Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. The study in particular looks at the impact of affordability of internet and subsidised data services, and what impact this has on people in different locations (countries, urban-rural), of different genders, and so on. In the first column, Chenai examines what kind of methodology is suited for research on access.

A world map colored to show the level of Internet penetration (number of Internet users as a percentage of a country’s population). Updated June 2013. Source: Wikipedia

Affordability is one of the primary barriers to internet access, and particularly to optimal use. Knowing this fully from our previous research, Research ICT Africa (RIA) conducted focus groups in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Rwanda in November 2016.

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[COLUMN] Access and beyond: Navigating the gendered cyberspace

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Wed, 04/12/2017 - 10:18

A world map colored to show the level of Internet penetration (number of Internet users as a percentage of a country’s population). Updated June 2013. Source: Wikipedia

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#FeministCSW61 – derechos de las mujeres en pugna

genderit-feninist talk-es - Mon, 04/10/2017 - 12:50

Una vez más el movimiento de mujeres debió organizarse para protestar y alterar con su activismo el intento de algunos gobiernos de impedir que sus representantes pudieran presenciar y participar en las sesiones de la Comisión de la condición jurídica y social de la mujer. Con buen manejo de las redes sociales, lograron la solidaridad internacional para reafirmar la participación y la vigencia de los derechos de las mujeres

Una vez más el movimiento de mujeres debió organizarse para protestar y alterar con su activismo el intento de algunos gobiernos de impedir que sus representantes pudieran presenciar y participar en las sesiones de la Comisión de la condición jurídica y social de la mujer (CSW, por sus siglas en inglés), organismo intergubernamental que fue creado específicamente para considerar e impulsar la equidad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres a nivel mundial.

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