In the 2013 Global Information Society Watch’s institutional overview entitled Whose internet is it anyway? Shaping the internet – feminist voices in governance decision making, Heike Jensen calls the attention to the hegemonic framing of issues and agendas in the
The World Wide Web of Desire: Content Regulation on the Internet
8 November 2007 By Namita Malhotra It is obvious that the discourse around content regulation has shifted mostly towards the protection of children from harmful content and child pornography on the internet. Any references to gender-related concerns were dropped, including
Women’s human rights: violence against women, pornography and ICTs
The position paper presented by Jac sm Kee from APC WNSP at Women Claiming The Information Society (WOCTIS), 11 September 2005, Berlin. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approval of .xxx as a global top level domain
Internet Governance Issues on Sexuality and Women’s Rights
Publisher: APC Women’s Networking Support Programme Internet Governance Issues on Sexuality and Women’s Rights 14-17 September 2010, Fifth Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum, or IGF, is a multi-stakeholder platform created by the United Nations to discuss public policy
9th IGF: Feminist talks scale over the walls of internet governance
Source: GenderIT.org — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — *GENDER CENTRED: A GenderIT.org thematic bulletin* APC WRP – GenderIT.org, 29 September 2014 — — — — — — —
An introduction to internet governance
by Jovan Kurbalija, 2014 The aim of this book, now in its sixth edition, is to provide a comprehensive overview of the main issues and actors in the field through a practical framework for analysis, discussion, and resolution of significant issues.
Feminist Principles of the Internet
An evolving document Developed at the Gender, Sexuality and the Internet Meeting organized by the Association for Progressive Communications 13-15 April, 2014 Malaysia Download the principles in pdf format here In April 2014, the Association for Progressive Communications, APC, organized
Gender and the IGF: participation and language used (2012)
The participation of men in the IGF, from its inception in 2006 to the last forum in 2012, significantly outnumbered women (number). But, as the IGF matures, a noticeable trend towards gender balance is coming to light. At each successive
Introduction to Human rights, ICTs and the internet: training module
This is the first of a series of training modules concerned with the relationship between humanrights, ICTs and the internet. These modules are intended to help those who work on humanrights and/or ICTs, and others with an interest in the
The APC ICT Policy Handbook (Second edition)
By APC/Ed. David Souter (APC) Montevideo, November 2009 Dowload the handbook here. Ask a typical citizen from anywhere in the world about ICT policy and the reply will probably be something like “What’s that?” or “Who cares?” Getting involved in