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“The youth are good for nothing”: session on social exclusion

Nyx
Nyx on 15 September, 2010 - 10:08
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Nyx attended a session on social exclusion, where the portrayal of youth by a Kenyan MP, and his ignorance of what was going on even in the conference around him, caused her to reflect on youth and their engagement in governancei processes.

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Reflecting on language and power

Nyx
Nyx on 15 September, 2010 - 05:57
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Nyx is a member of the South African EroTICs research team.

Looks at how power is played out in the language and terminology used in the IGF discussions, even when the theme of the discussion is "Internet governancei and human rightsi: strategies and collaboration for empowermenti".

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Close Encounters

Maya Ganesh from Internet Governance Forum in Lithuania
Maya Ganesh from Internet Governance Forum in Lithuania on 14 September, 2010 - 22:41
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Maya Ganesh is an independent researcher and writer based in Bombay, India. She works on gender, media and culture, sexuality and rights. Maya is the Indian partner on APC's EROTICS project.

This is the third time Maya is attending the Internet Governance Forum iand she has never really expected anything too extraordinary to happen here. She finds her expectations challenged when she meets with two representatives of the ICM Registry and IFFOR (the International Foundation for Online Responsibility) at a session on Sexual Rightsii, Openness and Regulatory Systems - who are interested in the work of the EroTICSi team.

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The future of privacy: an internet governance issue

Francoise Mukuku
Francoise Mukuku on 14 September, 2010 - 12:48 · Africa
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Participant at the IGF 2010, and the national coordinator of a young feminist group called Si Jeunesse Savait. Françoise is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and act as country partner of the APC's MDG3: Take Back the Tech! project.

Will 'privacyi' in ten years be different from what we know today? Many laws need to be reviewed in light of what we know about the interneti. But also, two new rights emerged that were completely new to Francoise Mukuku. They incorporate the new dimensions that the internet adds to our lives: the right to accountability and the right to privacy from design. Users should be able to say: I may make these data available on the net today, but tomorrow, I do not want them to be visible, I shared with my consent then, but now, I do not want it visible anymore.

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GenderIT.org's team @ Internet Governance Forum 2010, Vilnius

GenderIT.org
GenderIT.org on 9 September, 2010 - 03:46
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What is the role of the interneti in defending and realising women's rightsi and sexual rightsi? What are our positions as women's rightsi and sexual rights advocates on how the internet should be governed? From 14-17 September, the GenderIT.orgi team had been assisting at the Fifth Internet Governance Forum iin Vilnius, Lithuania. The GenderIT Feminist Talk contributors and tweeters at the fifth IGF are Jac sm Kee (Malaysia), Jan Moolman (South Africa), Katerina Fialova (Czech Republic) and Analía Lavin (Uruguay) - from GenderIT.orgi and APC communications teams - and Maya Ganesh (India), Francoise Mukuku (DRC, Si Jeunesse Savait), Marina Maria (Brazil, Sexuality Policyi Watch), “Nyx” (South Africa), "T. Q." (Lebanon) and Nighat Dad (Bytes For All, Pakistan) - from APC WNSP's partners on the EroTICSi Research Project and MDG3i:Take back the tech!i project. Join the debate!

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Gender divide/gap in Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governance

Valentina Pellizzer
Valentina Pellizzer on 29 July, 2010 - 20:45
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Valentina Pellizzer is the executive directress of the OneWorld - platform for southeast europe Foundation (owpsee). She also acts as the board member of APC.

Valentina Pellizzer, OneWorld Platform for SouthEast Europei (owpsee) executive directress, participated in this year's EuroDIG – Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governancei, and has several objections to the very visible gender gapi in terms of women's participation at the event, and in the IT sector in general. Her commentary was originally written for the Diplo Interneti Governance Community Blogi. We carry the full text of her commentary.

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Mexico: ACTA - anyone making a fuss in your country?

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 12 July, 2010 - 00:00
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Erika Smith works as the communications coordinator of APC WNSP. Originally from the US, Erika has lived in Mexico for 20 years and is on the board of APC member LaNeta.

Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Stateis of America are presently negotiating a trade agreement regarding counterfeiting and the enforcement of intellectual propertyi rights, known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Erika Smith, communications coordinator of APC WNSP, took part in the meeting organized by the Internet Societyi (ISOC) Mexico to find out how ACTA can affect laws or upcoming bills that attempt to address other aspects of cybercrimei, such ase violence against womeni facilitated by the interneti.

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From the “J” spot to the cru"X" of the matter

Magaly Pazello
Magaly Pazello on 30 March, 2010 - 15:40
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Associate researcher at EMERGE Communication & Emergence Research Center, Fluminense Federal University.

Where is women's "J" spot? asks Jan Moolman, making a play on the word "G-spot", in reference to Maria Suárez's (Radio FIRE) analysis of why Section J was not a priority issue at the 10-year review of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing + 10). Moolman, in agreement with Suárez, used the word "ghetto" to emphasise that media issues and ICTis (information and communication technologies) should not be viewed in isolation, nor subjected to the logic of static hierarchies.

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What happened to Section J?

Sarah Macharia
Sarah Macharia on 17 March, 2010 - 22:11
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Sarah Macharia from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) summaries the outcomes of the panel discussion on the Fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which took place on March 2 in New York on the occasion of the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): “You may be aware the GMMP is a longitudinal study running since 1995 on gender in the world news media. The research is implemented in 5-year cycles, to capture a one-day snapshot of gender representation and portrayal in the news across participating countries. 130 countries took part in GMMP 2010, an increase from 76 in 2005, 70 in 2000 and 71 in 1995. The WACC in collaboration with UNIFEM organised a parallel session at the 54th CSW to present and debate the preliminary findings.”
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Video: Talking about section J - Games for social change

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 15 March, 2010 - 18:21
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Heidi Boisvert, from Breakthrough, talks about their experience with videogames and how she thinks the feminist movement can be involved.
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Covering Beijing+15 from the sidelines

Olivia H. Tripon
Olivia H. Tripon on 15 March, 2010 - 15:48
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Olivia H. Tripon, the Philippine Bureau Chief and Country Consultant for Women’s Feature Service, is writing about her experience from the UN Media Accreditation process: "...When it comes to covering this all important review which comes every five years, one would think that media organizations like the Women’s Feature Service (WFS) which had actively covered most of the 12 areas of concern of women for the past 15 years would be given UN Media Accreditation at least for this 54th session of the CSW. Unfortunately for WFS Philippines which I head, that is not the case. For the first time since Beijing, I can only cover side events, albeit a more interesting and diverse coverage."
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Beyond tools: Internet as a critical policy issue for the advancement of women's rights

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 15 March, 2010 - 14:05
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Jac sm Kee, the Women's Rightsi and ICT Policyi coordinator for APC WNSP, reviews the UN Secretary-General's report on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (E/CN.6/2010/2) and assess how close we are to realize women's right to communicatei: “I wasn't present at the Beijing Conference in 1995, and having missed it, I feel like I have missed out on one of the most important moments in the history of the women's movement. From the stories I hear, it was truly a time when change not only felt possible, but was a tangible foothold away”.
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The “J Spot”at the 54th CSW: Celebrating women's social networking is not enough

Heike Jensen
Heike Jensen on 12 March, 2010 - 23:12
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Heike Jensen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies of Humboldt University in Berlin, (Germany), is locating the section J at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women:"[The J Spot] seems to prove almost as elusive as locating its embodied cousin has turned out to be. First of all, you will not find the J Spot in this year's intergovernmental and other official debates or proposed resolutions. You will have to seek it out in the vast parallel programme mounted by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in conjunction with this year's meeting, and this is where the difficulties really begin in earnest."
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Video: Talking about section J - Access to Internet in Lebanon

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 6 March, 2010 - 14:28
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Nadine Moawad talks about what's going on the interneti in Lebanon from a gender perspective.
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Women in and out of media

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 5 March, 2010 - 10:27
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Paraphrasing Virginia Woolf's essay A room of one's own, Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, said: “There is a need to ensure that the necessary resources are mobilised so that women have the opportunity to write their stories, have their voices heard and their identities represented, particularly when it comes to the peace and security sector. Media content must continue to reach women in their communities, it must provide in-depth, substantial information that supports and empower the work of women”.

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