gender and technology

While digital payments is transforming shopping experience for people in India, the overemphasis on digitisation without addressing the gaps in technological access is creating challenges for those who lack necessary skills. Women street vendors say that they either don't have the skills or technology to access payments made to them, or they don't trust the platforms with their hard earned…

Through an actionable research roadmap, the project seeks to address knowledge gaps in understanding perpetrators of online gender-based violence.

As many human rights activists and decision makers gathered for the 68th session of CSW in March in New York, the important questions about the politics of this year's theme that looked at "addressing poverty, strengthening institutions" remained unanswered. APC WRP's Karla Velasco reflects and calls to direct energies to address biases.

Regulating new digital dangers can be challenging. This is especially true when they are unforeseeable at the time of drafting the policy. Aitana Garcia Domingo explores two policy designs that can potentially help in countering tech-facilitated violence, and discusses limitations that both these designs pose to their successful implementation.

Pakistani women have always struggled to navigate public spheres given the scrutiny and violence that they are subjected to. But they're now fighting back by taking their space in the online public spaces that enables them to access an audience on their own terms. Yet, it comes at a cost.