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May 17 | World Internet Day & IDAHO | What does internet freedom mean to you?

ES for Takebackthetech.net
ES for Takebackthetech.net on 17 May, 2012 - 05:27
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May 17 marks two important causes: The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO)and World Interneti Day. Join us and play Twitter tag to connect your rights on May 17th. Help activists in your communities - geographically or issue-based - to connect with other activists who might know about IDAHO or internet rights ibut might not see them as interconnected or even know each other. Broaden your community of activist friends on Twitter at the same time.

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Who governs the internet

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 14 May, 2012
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Jac is the focal point for APC WNSP's work on women's rights. She coordinates the EROTICS research (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet) and APC's "Take Back The Tech!" campaign.

Who governs the interneti? How are decisions made about this key infrastructure and system that seems to support such an overwhelming part of our everyday lives? And what are feminists and women's rights activistsi doing about it? Jac sm Kee scanis through the history of the internet to leave us thinking about who governs that space that can have such an influencing impact on so many areas of our lives.

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Bargain basement shopping in the information society

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 15 May, 2012 - 11:19
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Erika is based in Mexico and is the membership and network development coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications Women´s Networking Support Programme.

When I saw this quote on Mozilla's new Collusion website: "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold - Andrew Lewis." I felt it summed up the economics tool boxi session on Commodification of Knowledge that APC led at the 2012 AWID Forum quite nicely. The session, organised by APC, brought together speakers to spark debate and reflection, but the audience vibrated with insights and was full of feminists eager to deepen discussion on the commodification of knowledge.

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Taking street harassment off the streets and off the map!

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 14 May, 2012 - 17:10
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Erika is based in Mexico and is the membership and network development coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications Women´s Networking Support Programme.

I walked in late to the jam-packed session “Bringing Gender ito the Streets: Young Women Amidst the Arab Uprisings” at AWID Forum 2012. This was not a session about technology or the interneti, but it was a common strand running through each presenters' activism and evidence-building for women's rightsi, even and perhaps especially in the midst of revolution.

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Privacy and voice

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 11 May, 2012 - 13:03
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Erika is based in Mexico and is the membership and network development coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications Women´s Networking Support Programme.

I'm sure we've all seen amazing testimony videos of incredibly sensitive subjects: of women who choose to have abortion and share why despite risking imprisonment in their country for this act of taking control of their bodies; lesbians who come out fighting against "correctional rape"; rural women living in isolated regions sharing stories of cultural violence. I cringe and wonder - do they know, did they realize - we would see their testimony - way across the world, that anyone close or near could see it. Are they at risk because of this?

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Have you ever spied on your ex on Facebook?

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 10 May, 2012 - 13:34
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Dafne is based inBuenos Aires, Argentina, and she is the coordinator in Latin America for APC´s Women´s Networking Support Programme.

The question in the headline elicits a complicit smile. Have you ever? Or have you spied on their new partner? Or have you googled someone you just met and liked a lot? At the interactive session on “Privacyi and pleasure” that was held as part of the 2012 AWID Forum there were a variety of participants, of diverse ages, that raised their hands, recognizing that both Facebook and Google are tools not just for finding friends, but also for watching and following the lives of the people who interest us, or that we should have stopped being interested in, but who are still in some corner of our hearts.

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Women's advocacy campaigns less effective when feminist?

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 9 May, 2012 - 15:19
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Erika is based in Mexico and is the membership and network development coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications Women´s Networking Support Programme.

Images of amazing infographics and heart-wrenching campaigns circled us in the recent "Using information design in advocacyi for women's rightsi" workshop at AWID Forum 2012. Maya and Faith from Tactical Tech led us in a provocative session, where small groups focussed on just one of six questions about each "ad" or campaign image as they toured the room. Questions to tackle included: who did the team think the ad was geared at, what did they learn, what would they change about the ad, etc.

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You walk away hopeful

Erika Smith
Erika Smith on 9 May, 2012 - 15:05
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Erika is based in Mexico and is the membership and network development coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications Women´s Networking Support Programme.

A graceful tree glimmering with scarves and blue beads to ward off the evil eye greeted us every day during the 12th AWID Forum: Nazar Degemesin - “May the evil eye not touch her”. Every morning participants could share their message and hang the bead, scarf and satchel (and coin if they had one) for another participant to find at the end of the day.

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Some notes on ESCRIBANA and its creative way to harness the power-politics of communications

Flavia Fascendini and Maria Suárez Toro
Flavia Fascendini and Maria Suárez Toro on 7 May, 2012 - 20:49
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Flavia Fascendini is GenderIT.org Spanish and Portuguese editor and is based in Argentina. Maria Suárez Toro has had a long activist career in women’s human rights, social justice, and communication. She is originally from Puerto Rico but has resided in Costa Rica since the 1970s. Maria co-founded and co-directed the Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) for several years and she is a member of ESCRIBANA and of Petateras.

Flavia from GenderIT.org based her feminist talk on Maria Suárez Toro’s notes for the session “Harnessing the Power-Politics of Communications: A New Edge for Feminist Transformative Activism” that took place during the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development. The session was organized by APC WNSP and took place on 12 April 2012 in Istanbul. María Suárez Toro, from the initiative ESCRIBANA, described the initiative’s work developing feminist autonomous capacity to communicate feminist perspectives and women’s voices under the motto: “In the midst of destruction, open way for creativity”.

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Latest CSW session could be a real step backward

Dafne Sabanes Plou
Dafne Sabanes Plou on 10 April, 2012 - 12:08
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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.

The inability of governmentis to agree on a common language of sexual and reproductive rights at the latest CSW session could potentially threaten established women's rightsi. So-called “traditional values” contradicti the spirit and effectiveness of human rightsi.

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