Feminist internet
Two of APC’s long-time staff and women’s rights leaders are leaving APC’s Women’s Rights Programme (WRP) as of 1 July. Jac sm Kee joined APC in 2005 and has been the APC WRP manager since 2013. Dafne Sabanes Plou is the coordinator for Latin America and has been with APC WRP for more than 14 years. With this transition, a leadership team will take over the coordination of the programme, led by Jan Moolman, Katerina Fialova and Namita Aavriti. The Women's Rights Programme had been evol...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and others (LGBTIQ+) people across the world face varying levels of discrimination, exclusion, precarity, violence and phobia. Our difference seems to cancel out the possibility of empathy. But while there is the growing anti-gender backlash in Eastern Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, there is also amazing strength of new voices speaking about intersectionality within the movement, about the experience of transgender a...
The Women's Rights Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC WRP) is looking for a content production coordinator and experienced bilingual Spanish-English editor (whose native language is Spanish) to join APC’s virtual office and help support our exciting work. The content production coordinator will be responsible for producing quality content for GenderIT.org, genera...
The Feminist Internet Research Domains of Change diagram created and explored through the FIRN inception meeting is designed to: Provide a framework for research project planning that can identify and prioritise specific fields where impact can be made; Identify strategies towards that impact by specifying which domain of change the strategy aims to engage with; Plot pathways ...
As part of the research hackathon, the WRP team and the peer-advisory committee worked on the first version of the practices document that reflects feminist research practices, politics and values that would be relevant to those in the network, and more broadly in the field of research on internet, feminism and gender. This was then discussed in detail with the research partners in the network....
Fighting for a free and open internet for all involves recognising the many ways that online access and experience are affected by identity and social position. This understanding has not only informed but motivated the work of APC and its community throughout our existence. Our projects always seek, in one way or another, to level the digital playing field. One of the most significant factors ...
APC will be at RightsCon Tunis, the first RightsCon summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, where more than 2,500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of human rights in the digital age. APC will join RightsCon to promote conversations on a range of issues, including...
The Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is conceived as “a platform for advancing a free, open and secure internet as a driver of development.” Organised by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) every two years, it gathers together hundreds of participants from around the world and a wide range of stakeholder groups for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and collaboration. At this ye...
Welcome to the 18th monthly round-up of developments impacting your local access networks. 1. Events and conferences The Africa Internet Summit is taking place from 9 to 21 June in Kampala, Uganda. Read more here and here. Access Now’s RightsCon programme has been released, announcing the event taking place from 11 to 14 June in Tunis, and includes many sessions on co...
Award-winning digital imprint Deep Dives is back with a new season of essays. The recently launched new collection, called “Bodies of Evidence”, will feature writings that explore the intersection of big data, bodies, gender and sexuality. An initiative of Mumbai-based non-profit and APC member Point of View, Deep Dives specialises in long-form journalism, personal narrative, art, poetry an...
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