Feminist reflection on internet policies
Changing the way you see ICT

Languages

Home › Latin America

Latin America

Mapping the intersection of technology and gender-based violence

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 14 December, 2011 - 10:00 · Arab States
1 comments | 636 reads
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.

Read the full article

Who's gonna track me?

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 13 September, 2011 - 21:37
0 comments | 463 reads
Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
GenderIT.org

Flavia Fascendini looks at the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rightsi defenders -- which, for the first time in history, focuses on the situation of women's human rights defenders. Drawing on the report's findings, she talks to South-East Asian women's activists about the unique security risks they face online.

Read the full article

Brazil: An ethnographic approach – mapping sexuality on Orkut

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 29 July, 2011 - 10:23
0 comments | 858 reads
Flavia is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Flavia Fascendini explores two communities on the Orkut social networkingi site on sexuality: one is a forum for anti-lesbian prejudice, and the second is a community aimed at legitimising romantic relationships between adults and adolescents. Both groups were studied as the part of the Brazilian EROTICSi research project that focused on mapping the dynamic and complex policyi shifts on interneti regulationi debates in Brazil.

Read the full post

EROTICS in Brazil: The complex universe of sexuality on the internet

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 28 June, 2011 - 11:30
0 comments | 975 reads
Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
GenderIT.org

Sexuality Policyi Watch and the Latin American Centre on Sexuality and Human Rightsi teamed up together to conduct the EroTICsi research in Brazil. In an interview with Flavia Fascendini, they talked about their participation in the project as an opportunity to address the nuanced impact of new Interneti legislation on sexuality. They approached this complex issue from two sides: looking at legislative and public policy on the one hand, and at expressions of sexual minorities on the other. Their next step will be to discuss the findings with other researchers and actors in the fields of communications, gender iand sexual rightsi.

Read the full article

Internet regulations can benefit from cross-sectoral conversations, says Marina Maria at the Human Rights Council

KF
KF on 8 June, 2011 - 16:14
0 comments | 489 reads

Marina Maria, a member of the Brazil EroTICsi research team, was one of the panellists of the 'Internet rights iare human rightsi' event co-organized by the APC with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the Human Rights Council’s 17th session in Geneva on June 3. Due to time limitations, she was not able to present her paper in full at the event. GenderIT.orgi is publishing her complete presentation in which she provides interesting insights in recent policyi debates on interneti regulationi in Brazil and how human right framework's was brought back to the debate thanks to the intervention of local activists.

Read the full post

CLAM

Website: CLAM

Working with scholars, activists and other partners, CLAM approaches sexuality from a social perspective and fights against the discrimination of sexual minorities in Latin America. In partnership with Sexuality Policyi Watch (SPW), CLAM worked with the Brazilian team of the APC's EroTICsi project - a global research on sexuality and the interneti, which included researchers from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa, and the United Stateis.

Read the full post

Feminist Tech Exchange - using technology in activism on women's rights (video, 15mins)

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 7 March, 2011 - 15:03 · Africa
0 comments | 1081 reads
Dafne works as the APC women's programme regional coordinator in Latin America. She is a journalist and long-time women's rights activist. Dafne lives just outside of Buenos Aires.

Dafne Plou presents on how dozens of Feminist Technology Exchanges - a series of capacity building workshops - are building the skills of women's rightsi organisations to use information and communication technologies in campaigning, monitoring and documentation to end violence against womeni. This presentation was part of the "Take Back The Tech!i Reclaiming technology for women's rightsi" session at the 55th Commission on the Status of Women, on 25 February 2011.

 
Read the full post

EROTICS: Exploratory research on sexuality and the internet - summary report

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 16 February, 2011 - 14:33 · Africa Arab States
0 comments | 1650 reads

What is the value of the interneti in the exercise of sexual rightsi? From 2008 to 2010, the EROTICSi research sought to answer this question, aiming to bridge the gap between policyi and legislative measures that regulate content and practice on the internet, and the actual lived practices, experiences and concerns of internet users in the exercise of their sexual rights. The summary report provides an overview of the research, and surfaces the key areas of concern, interest and findings of five national studies in Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the United Stateis. They give a compelling glimpse into the richness of the research universe, and the complexity of the subject.

 
Read the full post

Latin America in the run-up to the IGF: global and regional synergy

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 28 September, 2010
0 comments | 1329 reads
Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
GenderIT.org

The Association for Progressive Communicationsi (APC), NUPEF and the Registry of Interneti Domain Nameis for Latin America and the Caribbean sponsored the Third Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum i(IGF), held in Ecuador in early August 2010. How might this regional meeting and the IGF impact each other? What recommendations and concerns emerged from the regional process? To what extent were gender iissues represented at the Latin American meeting? Valeria Betancourt, Latin America policyi coordinator for APC and Dafne Plou, regional coordinator of APC's Women's Network Support Programme (APC WNSP) in Latin America, have some answers.

Read the full article

Instituto Patricia Galvão

Website: http://www.agenciapatriciagalvao.org.br/index.php
Founded in 2001 the Patricia Galvao Institute is a Brazilian social organisation that works in the area of communication and women's rightsi. Recognising the power of media to influence social and political change, the institute`s mission is to influence public debate on and improve media coverage of critical issues affecting women in Brazil through multimedia content production and media campaign development. In May 2007, the Instituto Patrícia Galvão organised a media campaign that encouraged balanced coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Brazil, including provision of truthful information concerning sexual and reproductive rights. The Institute is also an active member of Women & Media, the Brazilian network of feminist organisations and women that works to enforce social control of women's image in media. The network engages in ICT policyi advocacyi and fights for the democratisation of ICTs.
Read the full post

User login

Syndicate content