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16x16: rights . violence . technology - joining the dots

Purpleduck
Purpleduck on 31 July, 2010 - 18:31
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Take Back The Tech!i presentation narrating the story of how violence against womeni and ICTis links together in 16 slides x 16 seconds.

 
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South Africa: Pornography and the internet - justifiable protection or entrenching patriarchy?

Sally-Jean Shackleton
Sally-Jean Shackleton on 6 July, 2010 · Southern Africa
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Sally-Jean Shackleton previously worked with Women'sNet and is currently a consultant doing work related to women's voice and representation with a number of organisations. She is keenly interested in how ICTs shape women's activism and how women's activism shapes ICTs.
GenderIT.org

A draft Bill proposing a ban on sexual content on the interneti and cellphones submitted to the South African Department of Home Affairs in May 2010 claims to have the best interests of women and children in mind. The Bill was submitted to the Department, which oversees the Film and Publications Board, by a non-profit organisation called Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA).

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Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

Website: http://www.wougnet.org/

Initiated in May 2000 in Uganda by several women's organizations, Women of Uganda Network's (WOUGNET) mission is to promote and support the use of ICTi by women and women organizations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICT in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development. WOUGNET activities are carried out under three major program areas: Information Sharing and Networkingi, Technical Support and Gender iand ICT Policyi Advocacyi.

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Si Jeunesse Savait (SJS)

Website: http://www.mwasi.cd/

Si Jeunesse Savait (SJS, “If Young Women Knew” in french) is a feminist group formed in 2001 and based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It has representation in three provinces of eastern Congo. SJS builds the leadership skills of young women in sexual and reproductive rights, information and communication technologies and entrepreneurship. SJS has 115 members and more than 2000 supporters around Congo.

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Women and cybercrime in Kenya: the dark side of ICTS (Working document)

Alice Munyua, Muriuki Mureithi, and Grace Githaiga
Alice Munyua, Muriuki Mureithi, and Grace Githaiga on 20 July, 2010 - 16:10
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cybercrime

This study was commissioned by KICTANET as part of the GRACE Project, and supported by the International Development and Research Center (IDRC). It documents cybercrimei against women in Kenya and by extrapolation the East African Community Member stateis. For example the study examines the type and quantity of prevalent cybercrime against women or how does cyber crime affect women differently. The general objective of this study is to contribute to development of cyber security legislation in Kenya in order to provide a secure safe space, for women to exercise their right to communicatei without fear of abuse, harassment, and violence. It is targeted primarily to the governmenti/governmental agencies, international organisations, women organisations and media.

 
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Trafficking in human beings: Internet recruitment

Athanassia P. Sykiotou
Athanassia P. Sykiotou on 20 July, 2010 - 15:15
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Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)

Council of Europe, trafficking in women,

This study is one of the outputs of the project on the Misuse of the Interneti for the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings launched by the Council iof Europe, and funded by the Governmenti of Monaco. The study documents the various ways in which victims are recruited via the internet, and anticipate possible future techniques. It also highlights some of the best practices used to combat this misuse of the internet, and makes recommendations on legal, judicial, administrative and technical means of combating use of the internet for trafficking in human beings. The study is based on data collected from 22 member stateis of the Council of Europe.

 
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Internet regulation and the Brazilian EroTICs context

Sonia Corrêa, Marina Maria and Jandira Queiroz
Sonia Corrêa, Marina Maria and Jandira Queiroz on 7 April, 2010
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Authors Sonia Corrêa, Marina Maria and Jandira Queiroz document how gender iand sexuality have been at the heart of interneti regulationi debates in Brazil. However, this centrality does not necessarily translate to the discourses, analysis and the political claims of social actors involved in sexual politics, on the one hand, and digital politics, on the other. In the authors' view, there is no clarity or positioning among feminists and LGBTi activists regarding the ways in which gender and sexuality issues are at play in the political dynamics of internet regulation. Further no strong interaction exists between communication rights advocates and the world of sexual politics. Nevertheless the authors perceive cyber activists' commitment to privacyi rights as very auspicious for sexual and reproductive rights.

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Revolution in ICT infrastructure: Hope for the Ghanaian woman

Emily Nyarko
Emily Nyarko on 12 July, 2007
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In the area of telecommunicationsi, Ghana appears to perform relatively well in relation to its neighbours in the West-African region. How does it fare in terms of ensuring that gender concerns are taken into consideration whilst promoting ICTs for development? Emily Nyarko examines this question through a closer look at the Strategic Document for ICT and Gender in the national ICT policyi agenda.
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GenARDIS: supporting the use of ICTs by women farmers for social change

Sylvie Niombo
Sylvie Niombo on 7 August, 2006
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The GenARDIS grantsi programme was developed in recognition of the ICTi-related constraints and challenges faced by rural women in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The grants winners took part in a knowledge sharing workshop on gender, agriculture and rural development in the information society in Entebbe, Uganda from July 3 to 8. The following is a report by Sylvie Niombo - Deputy Coordinator of APC-Africa-Womeni- about the crossroads of gender, rural development and ICT, the impact of GenARDIS grants, and recommendations for policyi makers.
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Will women really benefit from the digital revolution?

Sylvie Niombo
Sylvie Niombo on 18 July, 2006
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The book “The Gender Digital Dividei in Francophone Africa, a Harsh Reality” written by Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla has just been translated into English by APC, the Association for Progressive Communicationsi. On this occasion, Sylvie Niombo, Deputy Coordinator of APC’s Africa-Women Programme, interviewed Marie-Helene on the content of the book.
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