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Nyx McLean
Nyx McLean on 20 April, 2012 - 05:43 · Africa
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Nyx is an activist who works in various fields, including gender-based violence, LGBTIAQ rights, internet rights, identity and media for social change. She holds an MA from Rhodes University, and her academic work deals primarily with rape reporting and normative theories of the media.

In South Africa a video recently went viral in which a young woman is gang-raped. This video has re-ignited discussions around gender-based violence within the country, many of these discussions have taken place on social media platforms such as Twitter.

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Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Republic of South Africa

APC, Right 2 Know, SANGONet and others
APC, Right 2 Know, SANGONet and others on 4 April, 2012 - 14:31 · Africa
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The full list of co-authors include: APC, CALS, CIVICUS, Gender Links, Highway Africa Chair in Media and Information Society, IDASA, ODAC, Right 2 Know, SANGONet, Section27, and SERI

This joint submission from APC, CALS, CIVICUS, Gender iLinks, Highway Africa Chair in Media and Information Society, IDASA, ODAC, Right 2 Know, SANGONet, Section27, and SERI focuses on freedom of expressioni, the right to information, freedom from censorship; freedom of the press, the right to privacyi, and the importance of affordable access to the interneti in South Africa. The submission criticizes women's underrepresentation in media ownership, and highlights the importance of safe public internet accessi for women, specifically marginalised women, e.g. unemployed women in rural areas.

 
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Ushahidi

Website: http://www.ushahidi.com

Ushahidi [oo-shah-hee-dee] is a non-profit technology company that specializes in developing tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. In particular, the company develops free and open source softwarei for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Ushahidi was initially developed to map online eyewitness reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in 2007. Since then, the software has been used for a number of similar projects around the globe, and the name "Ushahidi" has come to represent not only the platform but also the people behind it.

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Mapping the intersection of technology and gender-based violence

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 14 December, 2011 - 10:00 · Arab States
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Sonia Randhawa is the member of GenderIT.org's pool of writers. She produces a community radio programme, Accent of Women, available at www.3cr.org.au, and a member of ISIS-International Manila. Sonia is based in Australia/Malaysia.
GenderIT.org

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.

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Take Back the Tech! But know the risks first

Grady Johnson, Jennifer Radloff and Erika Smith
Grady Johnson, Jennifer Radloff and Erika Smith on 13 December, 2011
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Jennifer is a South African feminist and coordinates APC's work in supporting women human rights defenders use of ICTs securely through capacity building. Erika Smith is based in Mexico and works as the communications coordinator of APC WNSP. Grady Johnson is GenderIT.org's writer and editor.
GenderIT.org

Like any tool, ICTis can be tremendously useful, but dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. This is doubly true for activists and women's rights defendersi. Jennifer Radloff and Erika Smith speak to participants from one of our secure online communications for women human rightsi defenders workshops who share their own experiences with ICTs and what they've learned from the training.

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Connectedness or alienation?

Maya Ganesh
Maya Ganesh on 13 September, 2011 - 17:25 · Arab States
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Maya Ganesh is an independent researcher and writer based in Bombay, India. She works on gender, media and culture, sexuality and rights
GenderIT.org

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.

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Violence is Not our Culture Campaign

Website: http://www.violenceisnotourculture.org

The Violence is Not our Culture (VNC) Campaign was founded in 2007 and is a global network of organisations and individuals committed to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women (VAW) being justified in the name of culture and/or religion. Such forms of gender-based violence include stoning, whipping/lashing, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation and “honour” killings. The Campaign is now present in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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First Southern African IGF starts today

GenderIT.org /APC
GenderIT.org /APC on 1 September, 2011 - 09:26 · Africa
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From September 1st to 3rd the first ever Southern African Internet Governance Forum i(SA IGF) kicks off in Johannesburg in preparation for the global UN interneti forum to be held in Kenya. The event is aimed at ensuring that the views and voices of Southern Africa are represented in Kenya at the end of the month. Participants from all fifteen Southern African nations are expected at the forum. Join us on twitter @GenderITorg / #genderit or in Feminist Talk to follow SA IGF with Jan Moolman reporting onsite!

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Internet in South Africa is more than meets the eye

Grady
Grady on 26 July, 2011 - 16:11 · Africa
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Grady gives a glimpse into the final research of the EROTICSi research in South Africa that explored lesbians and transgender people use of the Interneti, and how content regulationi measures can constrain the internet's democratising and empowering potential for LGBTIi persons in the country.

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IPv6: are African net operators just talking to themselves?

Coordon
Coordon on 8 June, 2011 - 13:01 · Africa
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The author works as the national coordinator of a young feminist group called Si Jeunesse Savait. Françoise is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and act as country partner of the APC's MDG3: Take Back the Tech! project.

IPv6 hour in Africa : experts are pushing everybody to go for it but is it really the time for it? a blogiger taking part to teh discussion summarise the thoughts of pros and cons.

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