Take Back the Tech!

Take Back the Tech! allows abused women to unburden in Pakistan: But what next?
Take Back the Tech! allows abused women to unburden in Pakistan: But what next? 12 July 2011 APC

Denouncing sexual abuse in Pakistan is a risky move. But after over six years of abuse by her biological father, a young woman who attended an APC Take Back the Tech! workshop in Peshawar could contain herself no more.

APC Workshop at CIVICUS Global Assembly
APC Workshop at CIVICUS Global Assembly 10 June 2011

The CIVICUS Global Assembly will focus on the essential role of civil society in global decision-making. As the complex connections between the myriad concerns of citizens around the world become ever more apparent, it is clear that tackling these challenges – from climate change and development effectiveness to food security, structural poverty, chronic unemployment, human rights and international governance – requires collaboration on an unprecedented scale. The role of ICTs has been hi...

World Press Freedom Day - Take Back the Tech! to defend your right to communicate
World Press Freedom Day - Take Back the Tech! to defend your right to communicate 29 April 2011

On May 3 join a global day of action to defend our right to share information and opinions freely online – and be our own media!

Cambodian villagers take back the tech to end violence against their neighbours
Cambodian villagers take back the tech to end violence against their neighbours 28 April 2011 KB

In Cambodia women are traditionally considered subordinate to men and violence a socially acceptable way to resolve domestic conflicts. Now a grassroots group has brought together the locals and police in 25 villages using education, mobile phones and ham radios to break the silence that keeps violence against women a terrible family secret as part of APC’s Take Back the Tech!   &nb...

I Can Stalk U - Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing
I Can Stalk U - Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing 04 April 2011 GJ

The aptly named icanstalku.com attempts to expose the dangers inherent in posting information — in this case pictures — online in a rather unconventional way: the site regularly updates its news feed with individuals’ user names and locations, all gleaned from photos posted to Twitter.

Gender studies centre and women’s rights guide book launched in Cambodia
Gender studies centre and women’s rights guide book launched in Cambodia 27 March 2011 KB

An unprecedented achievement for the study and prevention of further violence against women in Cambodia was announced last month with the opening of a Women and Gender Studies Centre in the capital city Phnom Penh.

I don't forward violence! Take a stand and join the campaign
I don't forward violence! Take a stand and join the campaign 27 February 2011

Boyfriends and girlfriends rarely make commitments and plans to delete private photographs of each other when they snap them. What happens when the relationship breaks down and one of them decides to post them online? What about the people who receive and forward the images and videos? In each act of viewing and forwarding, they are continuing and replicating the violence. APC is launching a ne...

Panel Discussion - Take Back the Tech!: Reclaiming Technology for Women's Rights
Panel Discussion - Take Back the Tech!: Reclaiming Technology for Women's Rights 22 February 2011

APC women’s programme staff in 2009 Photo: APC Join the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme in a panel discussion – ‘Take Back the Tech!: Reclaiming Technology for Women’s Rights’. In Lesotho rural women are using cell phones to access prices and form agricultural co-ops. In Colombia and Pakistan survivors of violen...

Local radio, sms helplines, and the internet: Filipino women think local in stopping eVAW
Local radio, sms helplines, and the internet: Filipino women think local in stopping eVAW 11 February 2011

From radio dramas by a student theatre collective, to an sms helpline for migrant Filipinas working abroad, to web-based technology to help victims of violence in ex US military bases, five organisations that work with women and ICTs are being awarded with small grants to implement these projects through the APC Women’s Networking Support Programme’s (WNSP) Take Back the Tech! to end viol...

APC’s Take Back the Tech! video is UN Women's "video of the week"
APC’s Take Back the Tech! video is UN Women's "video of the week" 09 February 2011 KB

APC’s ‘What can you do to end violence against women? Take Back The Tech!’ video is the featured video on the United Nations’ Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence Against Women campaign this week.

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