Attending the African Women in Dialogue (AfWID) conference this year was a truly enriching experience. We were fortunate to engage with women delegates from 55 African countries.
Podcasts and Videos
Podcast: Making a Feminist Internet 2022
MFIs are a series of face-to-face and online gatherings where activists working at different intersecting issues come together to strategise and activate how we MAKE this feminist internet. In this two-part podcast series, activists at the MFI2022 Convening share their experiences and thoughts on how they imagine a feminist internet.
Feminist talk
Five tips for a successful edit-a-thon on gender
Do you want to organise an edit-a-thon around gender, women in STEM, movements and feminist histories of organising or anything else? Here are a list of (5 and more) things to watch out for - including the safety of your participants and how to navigate the tricky but sometimes essential rules of editing content on Wikipedia.
Publication
Gendersec Curricula: Training Curriculum from Gender and Technology Institute
The Gendersec Curricula is a resource that introduces a holistic, feminist perspective to privacy and digital security trainings, informed by years of working with women and trans activists around the world.
Feminist talk
The Binary Is Glitchy: Platform Accountability Through a Decolonial Queer Lens
As South Asian LGBTQIA+ folk navigate already unsafe and uncertain societies, digital spaces have increasingly become equally risky with the corporate greed that profits off their data at the expense of their already at-risk privacy. Debarati Das argues that this type of digital colonialism has far-reaching implications on the queer communities in the region.
Podcasts and Videos
[Podcast] This Feminist internet Life: FTX Stories of Collaboration, Creativity and Care
Listen to some great stories of long-time feminist tech activists and savvy newbies from the APC Women's Rights Programme and its expanded network, and get inspired by their memories and experiences, all connected by a common thread: making a feminist internet!
Feminist talk
Why did Google think two Zimbabwean women writers were the same person?
Algorithm bias manifests itself in unique ways every single day, affecting people of colour. Fungai Machirori explores how big tech corporations misidentify renowned Black women - error that continues to exist despite various alarms around the said bias.
In depth
Through the Memory Lane: Internet’s Various Stages And How It Enabled Women’s Participation
Since its advent, the internet has taken various forms and has gone through different phases to become what it is today. The evolution of the internet has not yet stopped, with new technology rapidly advancing. However, women's contribution and the kind of access they have is often overlooked in this conversation. This article explores how women have participated in making the internet and…
