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= ICT Policy and Women Rights Movements =


 * ICT Policy and Women Rights Movements **


 * Why Be Involved In ICT Policy **

This toolkit encourages women and their organisations to engage in political discussions regarding interneti development with a vision of inclusion, fairness and respect for women's rights. []


 * Links Between Internet, Cell Phones, and Violence Against Women **

Drawing on findings from APC ’s MDG3: Take Back the Tech!i project with women’s rights organisations in twelve countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, this paper explores the links between the internet, cell phones and violence against women and illustrates that technology related violence impacts women as seriously as other forms of violence.

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 * Campaign Example **



Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative campaign to reclaim information and communication technologies [|ICT] to end violence against women [|VAW] ). The campaign calls on all ICT users – especially women and girls – to take control of technology and strategically use any ICT platform at hand (mobile phones, instant messengers, blogs, websites, digital cameras, email, podcasts and more) for activism against gender-based violence. Take Back the Tech! accompanies the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (November 25 – December 10 each year) with daily actions that explore different aspects of violence against women and ICT tools.

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Check out this list of reports and resources on Gender and Technology from APC []
 * APC: Lists of Projects, Campaigns, and Papers **

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 * Women's Rights and Technology: Young People Speak Out **

[|Nancy Hafkin]  is a pioneer in the field of ICT for Development, working on issues of information technology in the developing world since 1980. Her work with the Association for Progressive Communication in the 1990s helped bring email connectivity to nations otherwise unconnected to the Internet. One of [|the most prestigious prizes in the ICT4D field]  is named in her honor and given each year by APC. Hafkin focused her work on issues of gender in ICT for Development, co-editing a book titled “Cinderella or Cyberella: Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society”. Historically, scholars of ICT haven’t paid much attention to gender barriers in the dissemination of technology. Hafkin believes this is, in part, because there’s an (incorrect) assumption that technology is gender neutral – give people access to technology and it will spread equally to men and women. This doesn’t appear to be the case, from the small bit of data available Read more from Ethan Zuckerman's [| write up].

ICT and Women's Rights: Women and Girls Should Embrace ICT World []
 * Women In Uganda Network **

The ICT Revolution in Africa with a Feminine Touch []
 * Women Who Tech in Africa **

Akira Chicks: African Technology Revolution with a feminine touch [] []



Girls In ICT Day Empowering girls through ICT – how can we encourage young women in countries around the world to play a greater role in the technology revolution? []

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Girls in ICT Portal []

[|Geek Girl Camp]

Girl Tank: 10,000 Names in 100 Days []

Digital Divide Policy Reports []