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Mobiles equipped with cameras are being used to peep up girl’s skirts as they climb on board buses. The same “emergency alert” button to send a distress signal from a cell phone is also connected to a global positioning system signal that allows women’s movements to be closely monitored by their spouses. Hundreds of Indian women denounce street sexual harassment in the Blank Noise Project Blogathon, many snapping shots of “Eve-teasing” aggressors.

Can ICTs help reduce poverty? After so many decades of development theory and practices, why is poverty on the rise?

APC WNSP’s Gender Evaluation Metholodology (GEM) was first elaborated in 2001 and has been applied throughout Latin America in a myriad of rural and urban settings where ICTs have been used in diverse and creative ways – but what has this meant for the women and girls such projects aim to support? GEM can help you determine whether your project or initiative is really improving the lives of women and promoting positive change in the community you are working in.

Take Back the Tech! started in November 2006 with a small but important idea: the increasing availability and reliance on new information technologies was transforming them into a political space, urgently in need of a feminist lens for engagement, understanding and envisioning. Women's contributions to the historical development of internet technologies were getting lost and forgotten, the reality of violence faced by women and girls all over the world was already seeping into online spaces and was not being given the attention needed.