Gender, Censorship and Surveillance Practices

Open Net Initiative-Asia: Gender Research Framework on Censorship & Surveillance Practices

APC and the women’s programme are taking a closer look at internet censorship and surveillance practices from a gender perspective in order to understand the potential impact of such practices on women’s rights and realities.The project also examines how gender considerations affect the development of research methodologies.

How do gender considerations influence factors in the political, economic and social spheres where censorship and surveillance occur?

APC WNSP member, Heike Jensen, the Centre for Independent Journalism in Malaysia and staff member Jac sm Kee have teamed up to develop a gender research framework for examining freedom of expression, security and privacy for ONI project partners in Asia, as well as future research initiatives that are looking into the area of online surveillance.

ONI-Asia is part of a larger Open Net Initiative project, a collaborative initiative that aims to investigate, expose and analyse internet filtering and surveillance practices in an un-biased way.