GenderIT.org @ Rio: Gender Peripheries of the second Internet Governance Forum

Today I sat in a workshop in Rio de Janeiro. A workshop in Rio de Janeiro? A capoeira, volleyball or football workshop, you must be thinking. Even though I’m just 25 metres away from a beautiful beach, imagine, I sat in a room in a hotel, full of people with laptops… on their laps. Such is life in the second Internet Governanceⁱ Forum. And let me tell you that it’s worth it. One of the 97 workshops unfolding here in Rio was called “Content regulationⁱ and the duty of states to protect fundamental rights”, brought to you by the APC’s women’s programme, the APC WNSP for all of you acronym-lovers.