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Designing domestic work platforms: A case study of Urban Company 30 August 2022 Divyansha Sehgal and Yatharth

This report explores how workers and customers navigate the introduction of technology into the domestic and personal services work sector in India, which has historically functioned through informal word-of-mouth networks and employs people largely belonging to marginalised communities.

Southern Africa Digital Rights Issue Number 1: Data and online privacy under attack 30 July 2022 Various

Southern Africa Digital Rights is an online publication produced under the project "The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: Fostering a human rights-centred approach to privacy, data protection and access to the internet in Southern Africa".

At the interstice of digital rights and environmental justice: Four issue briefs to inform funding
At the interstice of digital rights and environmental justice: Four issue briefs to inform funding 13 July 2022 APC

These issue briefs highlight potential priority areas for funding that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together, based on the need for the two groups to work more collaboratively given the global environmental and climate emergency.

Feminist by design and designed by diverse feminists
Feminist by design and designed by diverse feminists 13 June 2022 Bruna Zanolli and Débora Prado [1]

The project envisages the implementation of a Wi-Fi community network in quilombo Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca by actively encouraging the involvement of the entire region in multiple workshops and knowledge exchanges. In this article, we focus on the gendered and racial aspects of our journ...

Reflections on hate speech and other thoughts
Reflections on hate speech and other thoughts 01 June 2022 Multiple contributors

This report captures the first results of a project aimed at creating generative processes and spaces for discussions in Bangladesh around free speech and hate speech and their implications which could continue beyond the scope and timeline of the project.

Feminist design practices
Feminist design practices 31 May 2022 Akash Sheshadri and Ambika Tandon [1]

Design justice principles call for the process and end result of design to challenge the matrix of domination through practices such as centring the voices of marginalised communities and using collaborative processes to sustain and empower those communities.

Feminist by Design: COVID-19, homophobia and the Bolsonarista vernacular
Feminist by Design: COVID-19, homophobia and the Bolsonarista vernacular 07 May 2022

After the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, Brazilian social media became an increasingly fertile ground for the exercise of public violence. This article focuses on two episodes that illustrate social media engagement with homophobic hate speech uttered by or attributed to Bolsonaro.

Feminist by Design: Feminist internet research is messy
Feminist by Design: Feminist internet research is messy 06 May 2022 Nyx McLean

Feminist internet research is messy and conducting meta-research on feminist internet research is even messier. This critically reflective article argues that the messiness of research is not something to shy away from but rather to embrace.

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