gender and technology

Social media and technology is transforming democracy and particularly how voting takes place. In Nigeria a bill was proposed to lower the age of running for public office. Here are short interviews with candidates for public office and for the office of the President, including young women, and their take on Nigeria, representation of women, social meida and its role in politics and movements…

An illustrated journal and love letter to the feminists, hackers, women, gender-diverse, astrology-believers, radical nay-sayers, hikers, sleepers, vegans, beef-eaters, and everyone else who gathered in Nepal for the Take back the Tech and Feminist Tech Exchange camps in August 2018.

What is the experience of living through frequent network shutdowns and bans on mobile internet in the context of Manipur, a region located northeast of India. This article reviews a report on shutdowns in the region, and explores the specific impacts on women, and more broadly on people living in a sensitive region. 

This report on Mapping Digital Landscapes of Trans Activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe provides a regional overview of digital organizing by trans activists in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, emphasizing shared patterns of digital usage, barriers to free and safe use of the internet, and resistance strategies to homo/transphobic-motivated censorship, surveillance, and online attacks…

The emerging sub-field of research around gender and digital technology is united in its understanding that gender biases and stereotypes are embedded in technology, and that this reproduces the existing problems around gender parity, gender-based violence, discrimination and exclusion on the internet. This report is a mapping of the research around gender and digital technology in the decade…

Africa's AI policy landscape is expanding rapidly, with continental, regional, and national strategies emerging across the continent. But where does gender fit within this policy boom? Rebecca Ryakitimbo examines how gender is addressed in African AI governance, and explores the gap between gender inclusion and meaningful gender-responsive governance.

This piece draws on the “Don’t Ask AI, Ask a Peer” series to explore why human creativity and connection matter in the age of AI. Grounded in diverse contributions from activists, researchers and artists, it highlights how dominant AI narratives are shaped by power, exclusion and corporate interests. Debora suggests that asking better questions, rooted in lived realities, is itself a critical…

This article interrogates the possibility of a feminist and human rights approach to AI, arguing that current systems are shaped by profit-driven models that reinforce existing inequalities and power structures. Drawing on feminist and critical perspectives, it challenges narratives of human replacement, emphasising that AI cannot replicate lived experience, care, or connection.