Asia-Pacific

Women's human rightsⁱ activist Edna Aquino remarks on how ICTⁱs have impacted her work, presenting both new opportunities and new risks. In her interview with new GenderIT.orgⁱ writer, Maya Ganesh, Edna argues that activists using ICTs must be mindful of alienating women with the use of excessive jargon, and must always be keenly aware that there are inherent risks in online communications. However, she argues that these problems can be remedied through secure online communications training and capacity building.

Jennifer Radloff, GenderIT.orgⁱ contributor, and Running Toddler, a participant of a recently hosted workshop in secure online communications for women human rights defendersⁱ, interviewed the workshop's trainers, c5 and anonymous. In this first part of the interview, the trainers talk about their experience in training activists and human rights defenders to use technology securely, and the challenges inherent in communicating safely as feminists and women's human rightsⁱ defenders, and the importance of awareness that these technologies can both serve us and put us at risk.

Grady speaks to women's human rightsⁱ defenders from India and Philippines who use ICTⁱs in their work. They share their views how the right to freedom of association is exercised by women through ICTs. Speaking from their own experience, they dispelled some of the common myths surrounding the internetⁱ and ICTs use.