Take Back The Tech! Celebrating women and tech

Take Back The Tech! Celebrating women and tech

Take Back The Tech! Technology responds to violence against women The Take Back The Tech! (TBTT) is a collaborative campaign to reclaim information and communication technology (ICT) to end violence against women. TBTT along with Luchadoras and La Sandía Digital from Mexico, recently won the Womanity Award for the Prevention of Violence Against Women. Lulú […]

Hera Hussain – Chayn – Tech to Empower Women Against Violence and Oppression

Hera Hussain

Chayn Empower Women Against Violence and Oppression. We are talking this week to Hera Hussain, founder of Chayn.co, a global platform that empowers women against violence and oppression. Chayn means “Solace”, “Peace” in Urdu. Chayn is also an award-winning, open-source project that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression so they can live […]

Feminism in India: simple tech gives women a voice

News media and Feminism in India This week the ICTforWomanity network takes us to India to discover Japleen Pasricha, a young feminist activist based in New Delhi. Japleen runs India’s first crowdsourced, and award-winning digital intersectional feminist platform – Feminism in India, which amplifies the voices of women and marginalized communities using art, media culture, […]

How young women disrupt the silence surrounding Gender-Based Violence

How young women disrupt the silence surrounding Gender-Based Violence

The ICTforWomanity interview series focuses this week on video production. To cover this area, we are meeting with Amie Williams, an award winning producer/director specializing in documentary film and video for television. Amie  is the Executive Director & Co-Founder of GlobalGirl Media (GGM), an organization that develops the voice and media literacy of teenage girls […]

Ceri Hayes: Guidance for ICT Programs Preventing Violence Against Women

Ceri Hayes: Guidance for ICT Programs Preventing Violence Against Women

This week, Womanity Award Manager Servane Mouazan interviews Ceri Hayes, director at GenderMatters.  Ceri shares what ICT based organisations need to think about when developing programmes that seek to prevent violence against women. SM: Ceri, what do you specialise in and how does gender matter based on the work you have done in various places […]

Take Back The Tech! (Mexico) wins the 2016 Womanity Award for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence

Take Back The Tech! (Mexico) wins the 2016 Womanity Award for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence

Womanity is proud to announce that the 2016 Womanity Award for the Prevention of Violence Against Women goes to the Take Back the Tech! (TBTT!) campaign in Mexico, led by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC, South Africa) and Luchadoras/La Sandía Digital (Mexico). The collaborative campaign, which addresses the wide-spread problem of online violence against women, enables […]

Skillz-Breakaway: an online soccer game used to fight gender based violence

Skillz-Breakaway

By Claudia Cahalane. In a scenario which sounds like it’s been plucked straight out of Grand Theft Auto, the online game BREAKAWAY culminates with a girl being abducted, forced into a locker and left there after persistent bullying and abuse. 
The game is not glamourizing gangs, however, but rather is teaching boys and girls ages […]

Tactical Tech Educates Women's Rights Advocates on Online Safety

Tactical Tech Educates Women

by Claudia Cahalane Nataly works for a women’s rights organisation in the Caucasus, on the border of Europe and Asia. The organisation provides services and safe spaces for women in troubled situations. It also campaigns against gender-based violence. Knowing that the web was becoming a key way for women to find out about community events […]

Can an app tackle domestic violence in Somalia?

Can an app tackle domestic violence in Somalia?

by Claudia Cahalane. A Somalian NGO is hoping technology will help women be safer in their homes, where domestic violence is often accepted as the norm Dahrio, a mother of three, lives in a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her community has always seen her as a strong, happy woman. But for […]

Pushing back against sexism: a new era for women online

Pushing back against sexism: a new era for women online

by Claudia Cahalane. At the end of 2014, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube were all given an ‘F’ grade for the way they dealt with – or rather, didn’t deal with – online violence against women. This included sexism, abusive language, even death threats. The platforms were found to be lacking in transparency and were accused […]