gender and technology

This GenderIT edition envisions feminist futures that honour past struggles while confronting current urgent realities.

As Beijing+30, WSIS+20, and the Pact for the Future converge, this article reflects on three decades of feminist engagement at the intersection of gender and digital rights. While recognition of issues like technology-facilitated gender-based violence and AI harms marks progress, multilateral processes remain fragmented, Western-centric, and weak on accountability. This article argues for…

This article reflects on how technological change has reshaped the landscape of gender equality. By referencing Hija Kamran's expert paper, it situates APC’s contributions, noting both the progress made and persistent gaps. The article outlines how issues such as digital gender divides, technology-facilitated violence, AI misuse, and surveillance now demand urgent attention. It stresses the…

We are pleased to present our timeline, APC since Beijing 1995: Shaping a feminist internet, showcasing the APC community’s pioneering journey at the intersection of gender rights and digital rights. This timeline honours our shared legacy built by many hands to create resources, build capacity and share voices across the global South.

As Beijing+30 prompts reflection on progress toward gender equality, APC marks 30 years of shaping a feminist internet. Since its founding in 1990 and pivotal role in drafting Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action, APC has worked to ensure women and gender-diverse people can co-create digital technologies that reflect their realities. Through advocacy, movement building, and inclusion…

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, women human rights defenders in Mesoamerica face escalating digital violence that mirrors and amplifies offline repression. Research by IM-Defensoras reveals thousands of online attacks led by states, corporations, and fundamentalist groups. These digital assaults are not incidental but structural tools of silencing and control that highlight the…

As Beijing+30 approaches, LGBTQIA+ and marginalised women in East Africa remain excluded from the agenda’s promise of equality. Punitive laws, stigma, and violence deepen invisibility, while limited digital access compounds isolation. This article reflects on persistent gaps in the Beijing Platform for Action, exposing its cis-heteronormative blind spots and failure to address tech-facilitated…

As AI continues to evolve at speed, concerns around its embedded biases and systemic harms raise urgent questions for the future of gender justice, human rights, and the broader vision of a feminist internet. In the face of its growing inevitability, it becomes necessary to ask whether a truly feminist AI is possible, and in what conditions. Hija Kamran writes.

This article contains key takeaways and summaries of the discussions and talks about AI-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV) that happened during the sessions at the Open Tech Camp and Rightscon in February 2025. Reported by Rohini Lakshane.