Mariana Fossatti is the Decolonizing Wikipedia coordinator of Whose Knowledge? She is a feminist and a free/libre culture activist from Uruguay, and a long term Wikimedian. Previously, Mariana has been working with Whose Knowledge? for 4 years as our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign coordinator. Her background is in sociology and she has a master’s degree in Society and Development from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She co-founded the digital cultural centre Ártica in 2011, and co-founded the Uruguayan chapters of Creative Commons and Wikimedia in 2013. She has worked in the APC Women Rights Programme, amplyfing women voices in tech on GenderIT.org.
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Una economía feminista de los comunes
“Economía colaborativa” es una expresión polisémica y en disputa, que puesta frente a frente con otros conceptos, como economía de los comunes o economía solidaria, deja en evidencia que hay todo un campo de batalla semántico, reflejo de las tensiones generadas por el propio capitalismo en sus múltiples contradicciones. ¿Cómo seguimos?
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Decolonising Internet Governance
The internet is viewed as the gateway to development. So, how do we respond to the challenge of the persistent digital divide? Mariana Fossatti says that we have to do this from a standpoint of decolonising our thinking, and only that will open the possibilities of reconsideration of the global governance of the internet, prioritising factors of justice and equity.
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Descolonizar la gobernanza de internet
Internet se plantea como la puerta de entrada al desarrollo. Entonces, ¿cómo respondemos al desafío de la persistente brecha digital? Para la autora, partir de un marco de pensamiento descolonial permitiría repensar la gobernanza global de internet priorizando factores de justicia y equidad.
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A technopolitical approach to online gender-based violence
Technology is not gender neutral and this article shows how social media companies and tech corporations play a role in perpetuating online gender-based violence. What we need is a critical examination of the tools available and their underlying techno-politics so we can create community alternatives for feminist communication.
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[Edición especial] Violencia de género en línea: un enfoque tecnopolítico
Reflexionemos sobre las herramientas tecnológicas y sus implicancias en el discurso público de las mujeres en línea, buscando alternativas para tener una vida online más segura y satisfactoria, sin resignar nuestra libertad de expresión.




