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20th January 2021 | 181 views
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Once upon a time, not long ago, in a village in southeast Brazil, women came together to exchange information and learn collectively about the influence of technology on their lives and on the spirit of the community. In the process, they learned something of great value.

Feminist talk

New changes to Poland's abortion law could effectively ban abortion. Online protests have been building momentum to counter the force of the government, even as the pandemic rages on in Europe.

 
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Juliette Bretan

Juliette Bretan is a freelance journalist covering Polish and Eastern European current affairs...

Feminist talk

GenderIT and Locnet invited women who work in CNs to share their experiences in the times of COVID-19 and their reflections on what these times have revealed around centering meaningful communication in their physical and digital communities. This is the second part of the stories that got to be told about the acts of...

 
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Marcela Guerra

Artesana y madre, interesada en la apropiación de la tecnología y la necesidad de producir...

Feminist talk

Through awareness-raising work groups organised by Pamoja Net in DRC, women and girls learned how to participate in the network and to access and verify health information through a telephone helpline and a chatbot.

 
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Chako Armant

Chako Arman leads the Ensemble Pour la Différence community networks program in the DRC...

Feminist talk

In this second post in a series on artificial intelligence, research in the African context, Chenai shares why she believes that a feminist approach to research around AI is the only way.

 
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Chenai Chair

Chenai Chair’s interest in the ICT sector developed from learning of mobiles for development...

Publication

The Movement Building in the Digital Age report looks at the impact of the Feminist Internet convenings organised by APC Women’s Rights Programme (WRP), and provides an evaluation of APC WRP work on movement between 2014 and 2020. In this report, we share learnings for our network but also, and especially, for donors and...
 
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genderit.org

Launched in 2006, GenderIT.org is a groundbreaking resource site that provides feminist reviews...

Review

Design justice advocates for processes of design that do not extract or appropriate the knowledge of users but build systems and software that are of use to them, rather than to companies and designers themselves. In this review of the book on design justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock, there is a call to subvert and upend...

 
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Lucía Trias

Lucía Trias tiene una maestría en investigación de diseño, de la fundación Bauhaus Dessau, así...