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Women and ICT in Colombia: an issue still not completely incorporated in feminist agendas

Graciela Selaimen
Graciela Selaimen on 2 February, 2006
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Olga Paz, Administrative and Project Coordinator at Colnodo, a Colombian member of Association for Progressive Communicationsi (APC), explains in this interview with GenderIT that in her country there is still not a clear gender perspective on national ICTi policies and that there is still a way to go in achieving an understanding of the role of ICT as a political and strategic issue that can be very productive in social organisations and women’s groups.
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Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia: Cross-country Study on Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies

María Isabel Davidziuk and María Alejandra Davidziuk
María Isabel Davidziuk and María Alejandra Davidziuk on 22 February, 2010
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María Isabel and María Alejandra Davidziuk compare the findings of four national reports from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia undertaken as part of the APC WNSP project “Strengthening women’s strategic usei of ICTs to combat violence against womeni and girls”. In their analysis they look at some barriers (both institutional and cultural) that need to be overcome in order for ICTs to be successfully used to decrease violence against women and girls.
 
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Colombia: Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies

Lucy Niño and Lida Nuñez
Lucy Niño and Lida Nuñez on 4 November, 2009
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Lucy Niño and Lida Nuñez look at how the Colombian governmenti has paid special attention to ICTi policies, offering ICT literacy programmes and ICT inclusion in marginalised areas, while at the same time ICTs are used to promote prostitution and pornography produced in the country via the interneti and cellphones. Government has produced a campaign to foster a “healthy use” of internet and to protect children. Social movements and women´s movements have also used ICTs for anti-VAW campaigning, supporting survivors and promoting images of women free from stereotypes in the media. This paper examines these trends, and urges action to end VAW in public, private and institutional spaces, in the internal armed conflict and in the symbolic sphere. Read the English abstract of the paper below. Full paper is available in Spanish.
 
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