Building collective knowledge towards deepening understanding, influencing discourse and shaping agendas GenderIT.org produced the “Three issues for a feminist internet: Access, agency and movements” edition in close collaboration with the Feminist Principles of the Internet (FPI) network. In 2016, GenderIT.org published 17 columns on gender, ICTs and climate change; digital technologies and trans* people; women’s rights and internet access; and young women and technology. GenderIT.org editions… Read More
Amplifying women’s voices through digital storytelling In 2007, APC member Women’sNet hosted a digital storytelling workshop with survivors of gender-based violence to process and produce digital stories. It was a powerful experience for trainers and participants alike, and inspired the African network of the APC Women’s Rights Programme (WRP) to host a similar workshop for the region in 2007, and One… Read More
Building feminist futures at the AWID Forum The APC Women’s Rights Programme (WRP) put together a team of over 25 staff and members to participate in the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” international forum held in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil in September. APC held a one-day pre-event to “Imagine a Feminist… Read More
Feminist Principles of the Internet 2.0 The collaboratively developed Feminist Principles of the Internet (FPIs) emerged from “Imagine a Feminist Internet” meetings that took place in Malaysia in 2014 and 2015 with diverse activists and advocates working in sexual rights, women’s rights, gender-based violence, and internet rights. Version 2.0 of the FPIs was launched in August 2016 on a new interactive… Read More
Ten years of taking back the tech to fight gender-based violence 2016 was an outstanding year for the Take Back the Tech! campaign. TBTT celebrated its 10th anniversary with a 2016 campaign theme of “Our collective story: Women who shaped technology”. Participants in at least 25 countries reached more than four million people through online and offline actions for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based… Read More