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Take Back The Tech! Bosnia - Herzegovina

Take Back The Tech!i Bosnia - Herzegovina first launched in 2008. Its sponsor, the OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europei Foundation (OWPSEE), in collaboration with other local organizations, joined the global Take Back The Tech! campaign by localizing its key message for the citizens - especially women and girls - of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania. Their actions organized during the global 16 days of activism against gender-based violence range from the translation of campaign materials in three local languages (Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Macedonian and Albanian), round-table discussions, documenting, publishing, training or digital storytelling.

Take Back the Tech! campaign now a global movement

By Jac sm Kee

Since its inception in 2006, the Take Back the Tech!i campaign has grown into a global movement. Women everywhere are using technology to combat gender-based violence, and assert their rights to free and open online spaces. Despite its global reach, the Take Back the Tech! campaign is designed to be adapted to local issues and local circumstances. This year the campaign is focusing on building capacity for women to use ICTis safely and to build collaborative and systematic monitoring platforms to assess the scope and dimensions of how technology and violence against womeni intersect.

Mapping the intersection of technology and gender-based violence

By Sonia Randhawa Africa, Arab States, Asia-Pacific, Latin America

On 25 November 2011, Take Back The Tech!i campaign launched an interactive map that allows interneti users to share their stories, local news and personal experiences of gender-based violence they faced online or through the use of mobile phone technologies. As of 7 December, the map has recorded 103 stories from across the globe, with the majority of stories coming from Africa, Latin America and Asia. Sonia Randhawa draws on the data collected through the mapping platform and looks at some of the trends this data reveals to us about technology-related violence against womeni.

From Clock Square to StreetWatch: mapping sexual harassment in Palestina

By Dalia Othman Arab States

Dalia Othman, a researcher and human rightsi activist, reports on a new initiative in Ramallah, Palestina, that uses online mapping and mobile phone technology to allow women to combat sexual harassment in the streets.

It's time to stand up and be counted

By Grady Johnson Global

If we want to tackle the problem of gender-based violence online, we need to develop a strong evidence base, argues Grady Johnson in this article. At the risk of revisiting old traumas, we need women to document the scope of the problem, so that the gravity of the situation can no longer be denied. Most of all, we need good numbers if we hope to make good policies.

Coordinates for change: putting violence against women on the map

By Flavia Fascendini

“Map it. End it. Demand change” was the core of the Take Back the Tech!i campaign for 2011. Flavia Fascendini writes about several mapping initiatives around the world that aim to document forms of violence against womeni so as to “put them on the map” in the sense that they are named, pointed out, shown as related, and denounced - and in that way the mapped territory is changed into one that respects the rights of women and children.

Mapping and privacy: Interview with Privacy International's Gus Hosein

By Sonia Randhawa Global, Pakistan

Sonia Randhawa spoke with senior fellow at Privacyi International Gus Hosein about how mobile devices and their ability to map our movements are intruding on personal privacy and individual autonomy.

Guides or Training Materials

Take Back The Tech! Be safe

By Take Back The Tech!

The Take Back the Tech!i Be Safe website section offers tips and ideas on steps women and girls can take to make their online experiences safer. It addresses security issues regarding privacyi (emailis, online chats, password protection, mobile phones), prevention of cyberstalkingi or secure online browsing.

Self-Care & Self-Defense Manual for Feminist Activists

By Marina Bernal, Elige and Artemisa

This self-help manual written by Marina Bernal and others with the collaboration of Artemisa, Elige and CREA, proposes to feminist activists to undertake a journey of self-exploration in order to learn to build their own self-defense strategies. It aims to help activists understand their limitations and strengths, as well as reasons why they are victims of certain types of violence and why they react in one way or the other when faced with it.

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Take Back the Tech! online mapping platform

By Take Back The Tech!

This mapping platform is part of the Take Back the Tech!i campaign, and provides a space for the documenting and monitoring of experiences and stories of women and girls who faced violence against womeni (VAW) online or through the use of mobile phone technologies. The interactive map monitors technology-related VAW according to five broad categories: the type of VAW, the act of violation (what the abuser or violator did), the harm faced by twomen survivors, the technology platform which was implicated or used in the incidence of VAW, and the level of familiarity or involvement with the abuser or violator. In collaboration with the local campaigners, the map operates in 10 languages, including French, Spanish, Bosnian, Lugandan, Arabic, Urdu and Portuguese.

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