Source: GenderIT.org Towards internet intermediary responsibility Carly Nyst on 26 Nov 2013 A key pillar of the internet freedom movement is the concept that internet intermediaries should be immune from liability for any content hosted on their sites. Yet there
IT for Change was commissioned by BRIDGE, IDS in 2013 to prepare a policy brief on Gender and ICTs for DFID. The final policy brief, submitted in February 2014, provides a broad brush-stroke analysis of the depth and breadth of
Violence against women (VAW) that is mediated by technology is increasingly becoming part of women’s experience of violence and their online interactions. In the same way we face risks offline, in the streets and in our homes, women and girls
30 September 2013 Source: GenderIT.org By erika The Latin American Regional Forum on Internet Governance was held in August, and brought together internet experts from government, business, and civil society. As a feminist from Mexico who documents cases of technology-related
by Avri Doria Download the women’s rights, gender and internet governance paper here. Written specifically to frame to discussions of the gigX, this issue paper focuses on the question of the degree to which gender and women’s rights feature in
This module looks at violence against women within the context of the internet and ICTs. It begins by exploring how violence against women (VAW) has been historically recognized and addressed within international law, and then explores the ways in which
The module centres around the 15 Feminist Principles of the Internet 1 that were developed by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and a group of international activists, researchers and scholars at a Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the
Source: Privacy International Authors: Claire Lauterbach Date: 6 March 2015 This Sunday is International Women’s Day. You could celebrate the considerable progress in legislating for women’s equal rights. You could join a protest against political and legal inequality, discrepancies in
By Deborah Brown, Senior Project Coordinator, and Jac Sm Kee, Women’s Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications Source: ISHR In recent years, revelations of mass governmental surveillance have propelled the right to privacy into the public eye and discourse. However,
17 November 2009 By Jac sm Kee Source: GenderIT.org I attended two sessions on privacy yesterday and today. The first one was on Privacy, Literacy and Social Networking and the second today, was on Privacy Protection, Openness and Online Behavioral