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Blogs for African Women Project Gets Nigerian Women Hooked on Technology

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APC Africa Women Member Wins Harambee Prize

Blogs for African Women (BAWo) has taken hold of the Nigerian blogging spirit to strengthen women’s activism. Oreoluwa Somolu, BAWo’s founder, sees blogging as a way to get women “hooked on technology”, and gain important skills for community and NGO leadership at the same time. Networking for Success, BAWo’s second initiative getting women into the blogosphere, has just been awarded an Harambee Small Grant to increase BAWo’s collaboration capacity.

 
 

FTX @ AWID 2012

Feminist Tech Exchange

What are the emerging risks and challenges that women’s rights advocates face in using technology for activism? How can we strategise to work more safely and securely online? What is the feminist politics of privacy, security and the right to participate on the internet? Are you attending the AWID Forum this year? If you are, join us at the Feminist Tech Exchange to explore and exchange ideas and strategies on the feminist politics and practices of online security, privacy and
women’s rights!

What is the FTX? 18 April 2012

 
 

Take Back the Tech! But know the risks first

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Like any tool, ICTs can be tremendously useful, but dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. This is doubly true for activists and women's rights defenders. Jennifer Radloff and Erika Smith spoke to participants from one of our secure online communications for women human rights defenders workshops, who shared their own experience with ICTs and what they've learned from the training.

 
 

Strategising Online Activism: A Toolkit

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“Strategising Online Activism: A Toolkit” was designed for and by women activists but can be used by everyone. Key chapters include: strategising and planning your online activism; creating your campaign’s identity; social networking and security on the internet. vioThe guide provides practical and accessible step-by-step advice, while keeping a political and feminist eye. It was developed by APC’s women’s programme (APC WNSP) and our partner Violence is Not our Culture (VNC).

The toolkit aims to build:

 
 

Video: Dafne Plou y Patricia Peña, de APC, hablan sobre género y TIC

En esta entrevista del programa de TV en línea Código Abierto, dos integrantes del Programa de Apoyo a las Redes de Mujeres de APC hablan de cómo la tecnología puede usarse para perpetrar la violencia pero también para combatirla. Si bien la violencia de género se reproduce en línea, las TIC también pueden ser utilizadas para fortalecer las organizaciones civiles de mujeres, de manera de despertar conciencia e inquietudes sobre el tema.

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Secure communications essential to women's rights defenders

Grady speaks to women's human rights defenders from India and Philippines who use ICTs in their work. They share their views how the right to freedom of association is exercised by women through ICTs. Speaking from their own experience, they dispelled some of the common myths surrounding the internet and ICTs use.

 
 

Feminist tips for online campaigning

This guide includes all you need to know to plan your online campaign from a feminist perspective. What does this mean? That Strategising Online Activism: A Toolkit focuses on women’s needs and how technology can lead to their empowerment.

 
 

Finding Our Courage to Speak and to Speak Out

In a space where women have learned to self-censor, to not speak with another woman because of the negative perception that can be extended to them, the story circle takes on an unimaginable value. I am humbled by the courage shown by these women, women who continue to struggle against the onslaught of patriarchal discrimination, and not just discrimination, but unabashed violence. Here are women who face danger as soon as they step out from their homes, they risk it, because they have to survive. Yes, it is a survival issue. It has come to this.

 
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