Online talk held for Cordaid 18th November 2021, on the concept of digital development, and what online gender-based violence (GBV or eVAW) means for the activities of international development NGOs.
Explain the concepts intra and extra-familial sexual abuse
Explore the activities associated with sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse and exploitation rings
Child sexual abuse and age
Child sexual abuse and gender
Discuss disclosure and reporting of sexual abuse and exploitation
Discuss the consequences of child sexual abuse and exploitation
Presentation by Jemimah Njuki at the FAO-ILRI Workshop on Integrating Gender in Livestock Projects and Programs, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 22-25 November 2011.
Understanding Gender Based Violence and Trends in the Caribbean Taitu Heron
Overview of what is gender based violence and a look at the trends in the Caribbean. For Sociology Course students, Department of Sociology, Univ. of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Domestic violence is the obstinate terrorization, physical stabbing, battery, sexual attack, and other abusive behavior as part of an organized model of power and control perpetrated by a close partner against another.
Slut Shaming, Victim Blaming and Harassment on Social MediaBailey Parnell
"Bailey Parnell & Tesni Ellis
Slut Shaming, Victim Blaming and Sexual Harassment on Social Media
This session will discuss the forms of violence against women, and projects that seek to combat such violence that take place in the online world. The talk will discuss rape culture and the forms of harassment that women and youth experience online, from threatening trolls to discourses that blame victims of sexual assault to women in the gaming industry.
We will also look at feminist projects and trends that use social media to educate, rally and combat the harassment experienced both online and offline, including groups like SlutWalk, the Everyday Sexism Project and trends like #YesAllWomen and #BeenRapedNeverReported. Join us as we discuss rape culture’s presence on social media and contemplate methods to change the cultural consciousness.
With Bailey Parnell and Tesni Ellis, Ryerson Student Affairs Creative Unit.
ASL provided. If you require any other accommodations, please let us know."
Explain the concepts intra and extra-familial sexual abuse
Explore the activities associated with sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse and exploitation rings
Child sexual abuse and age
Child sexual abuse and gender
Discuss disclosure and reporting of sexual abuse and exploitation
Discuss the consequences of child sexual abuse and exploitation
Presentation by Jemimah Njuki at the FAO-ILRI Workshop on Integrating Gender in Livestock Projects and Programs, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 22-25 November 2011.
Understanding Gender Based Violence and Trends in the Caribbean Taitu Heron
Overview of what is gender based violence and a look at the trends in the Caribbean. For Sociology Course students, Department of Sociology, Univ. of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Domestic violence is the obstinate terrorization, physical stabbing, battery, sexual attack, and other abusive behavior as part of an organized model of power and control perpetrated by a close partner against another.
Slut Shaming, Victim Blaming and Harassment on Social MediaBailey Parnell
"Bailey Parnell & Tesni Ellis
Slut Shaming, Victim Blaming and Sexual Harassment on Social Media
This session will discuss the forms of violence against women, and projects that seek to combat such violence that take place in the online world. The talk will discuss rape culture and the forms of harassment that women and youth experience online, from threatening trolls to discourses that blame victims of sexual assault to women in the gaming industry.
We will also look at feminist projects and trends that use social media to educate, rally and combat the harassment experienced both online and offline, including groups like SlutWalk, the Everyday Sexism Project and trends like #YesAllWomen and #BeenRapedNeverReported. Join us as we discuss rape culture’s presence on social media and contemplate methods to change the cultural consciousness.
With Bailey Parnell and Tesni Ellis, Ryerson Student Affairs Creative Unit.
ASL provided. If you require any other accommodations, please let us know."
Digital Gender Gaps Seen Through Social MediaIngmar Weber
Keynote given on September 25 at the 5th Annual International Conference on Data Science and Business Analytics (ICDSBA2021, http://www.icdsbaconference.com/2021/menu/keynotes). Based on joint work with Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford), Masoomali Fatehkia (Qatar Computing Research Institute), and others. Includes preliminary observations from changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban take-over. Details about published work at https://ingmarweber.de/publications/.
I4ADA 2019 - Presentation Cedric WachholzPaul van Heel
See https://i4ada.org for additional information and videorecordings of the presentations held at the Hague Summit for Accountability in the Digital Age
Social Media Networking Site Usage Demographics Statsrishibajaj8
Social media are interactive, computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and
exchange of ideas, information, professional skills and other forms of expression across virtual
communities and networks, to estimate the social media technology using among population.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
Meenakshi Nagarajan,Amit Sheth,Selvam Velmurugan, "Citizen Sensor Data Mining, Social Media Analytics and Development Centric Web Applications," Tutorial at WWW2011, Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011.
More info at:
http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1030
http://www2011india.com/tutorialstr27.html
Objective of this research project NGO Helpers is to develop a framework for various NGOs. NGO Helpers recommend relevant users or interested users to NGO. After very deep analysis of user tweets user gets classified either as relevant user or irrelevant user and recommended to NGO working in that domain(e.g: Child Welfare, Women Welfare, Old Age, Animal Welfare,Healthcare).
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 29, 2020 to scholars, policy makers and civil society advocates convened by New York University’s Governance Lab (GovLab). He described findings from two canvassings of hundreds of technology and democracy experts that captured their views about the future of democracy and the future of social and civic innovation by the year 2030. Among other subjects, the experts looked at the impact of misinformation, “techlash” and trust in government institutions.
A Systematic Survey on Detection of Extremism in Social MediaRSIS International
Extremism is an uncommon feature of a person or a group. These extreme features pertain to beliefs, attitudes, feelings, actions, or strategies, etc. Extremist activities happen on various platforms on the Internet. These platforms are constantly being utilized to spread extremist agenda, influence people and create virtual organizations and communities. Automatic detection of such a level of extremism in social media is a technically challenging problem that has recently gained popularity in the research community. This paper provides a systematic, critical and detailed literature review of the state of the art techniques used in automatic detection of extremism of different forms and in different types of social media. The survey outcome is systematically presented using several dimensions like machine learning techniques used to detect extremism, features and datasets employed in research studies, emerging trends in extremism, limitation of existing work and possible prospects in future. Several findings from the survey have been identified as potential directions for future work. Specifically to mention, spatial-temporal features have not been fully utilized to detect extremism. Such features, if systematically used, can play a very vital role in tracing the location as well as time of promoting extremists activities.
EOOH: the Development of a Multiplatform and Multilingual Online Hate Speech ...Anand Sheombar
Presentation of paper at IIMA 2022 conference. Abstract of the paper:
Purpose: This short paper describes the dashboard design process for online hate speech monitoring for multiple languages and platforms.
Methodology/approach: A case study approach was adopted in which the authors followed a research & development project for a multilingual and multiplatform online dashboard monitoring online hate speech. The case under study is the project for the European Observatory of Online Hate (EOOH).
Results: We outline the process taken for design and prototype development for which a design thinking approach was followed, including multiple potential user groups of the dashboard. The paper presents this process's outcome and the dashboard's initial use. The identified issues, such as obfuscation of the context or identity of user accounts of social media posts limiting the dashboard's usability while providing an important trade-off in privacy protection, may contribute to the discourse on privacy and data protection in (big data) social media analysis for practitioners.
Research limitations/implications: The results are from a single case study from the dashboard development's first one and half years. Still, they may be relevant for other social listening or online hate speech detection and monitoring projects involving big data analysis and human annotation.
Practical implications: The study emphasises the need to involve diverse user groups and a multidisciplinary team in developing a dashboard for online hate speech. The context in which potential online hate is disseminated and the network of accounts distributing or interacting with that hate speech seems relevant for analysis by a part of the user groups of the dashboard.
Keywords: online hate speech, social media analysis, big data, anonymisation, social listening.
Digital in motion - digital trends for development NGOs 2019Anand Sheombar
Presentation & overview of digital trends (using a hype cycle made by ICTworks) that are present in the context of international aid and development activities from development NGOs. This presentation was part of the Digital in Motion session at the Innovation Festival 2019 organised by Partos and The Spindle https://partos.nl/innovationfestival2019/sessions-workshops/#c1829
Reflections On Social Media Use Along The Academic Research Life CycleAnand Sheombar
This short paper presentation at 12th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2019) argues for the need for discussion on the role social media could have in the research life cycle, particularly for Information Systems (IS) scholars. ICTs are pervasive, and their societal impact is profound. Various disciplines including those of social sciences are present in the online discourse and join the public debate on societal implications of ICTs and scholar are familiar with web tools for publishing. Information Systems scholars could not only further explore the possibilities for joining that online discourse, but also could explore the potential social media may have for activities related to the research life cycle. In this paper we do not focus solely on social media as a data collection source but regard their merits as a channel for scholarly communication throughout the whole research life cycle, from the start of getting inspired to conduct a research, finding collaboration partners or funding, through suggestions for literature, to the stage of research dissemination and creating impact beyond the own scientific community. This paper contributes an original approach to research communication by combining the research life cycle with practical insights of how social media can be applied throughout each phase of that lifecycle. We conclude with some questions debating the stance that (future) IS scholars are prepared to become the digital scholar that can manoeuvre well on social media for scholarly communication.
Applicability Assessment Framework for Organisational Social Media Use by Dev...Anand Sheombar
Poster accompanying short conference paper that suggests an initial applicability framework based on earlier research and the literature review of organisational social media use by NGOs in the context of international development. It aims at providing guidance to these NGOs when assessing the implementation of social media for development purposes. The applicability of this artefact will be tested by development NGOs.
Discovery of key factors that may influence the success of multinational ICT ...Anand Sheombar
This overview paper presents results of an investigation into the nature of key factors that
may influence the success of multinational information and communication technology
(ICT) companies in their efforts to engage with the Base of the Pyramid (BOP).
The research was conducted in 10 BOP projects involving multinational ICT companies in
Africa. ICT is relevant here because of frequently high expectations that it contributes
positively to development goals. A study of the BOP literature reveals that several elements
need consideration when trying to create value in developing areas. In addition it
emerges that these elements are somehow interdependent. Qualitative data was collected
using the case study method and the data was analyzed for emerging patterns.
The analysis revealed three high level factors that may need to be aligned in order to ensure
optimized value creation of BOP ventures. These three factors are BOP strategy, partnerships,
and products & services development.
The presentation provides reasons for using social media in research activities and communication. Various social media are linked to the Research Life Cycle.
The original presentation was held at a research group meeting at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, June 2014.
Presentation IT MNCs and the BOP for TNO IT4D group December 2009Anand Sheombar
The presentation was delivered at the office of TNO IT4D group.
It highlights the research conducted on multinational ICT companies and the Base of the (economic) Pyramid.
The presentation includes extra slides at the end that elaborate the key findings.
The balancing act of optimised value creationAnand Sheombar
The analysis revealed three high level factors that may need to be aligned in order to
ensure optimised value creation of BOP ventures. These three factors are BOP strategy,
partnerships, and products & services development. It is also confirmed that neither BOP
strategy nor partnerships nor products/service development can be synthesised
independently from the rest. There is a delicate balance and interaction between the three
where all three are interdependent and mutually influence each other.
Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Impact of
Base of the Pyramid Ventures, Delft, The Netherlands, 16 - 18 November, 2009.
BOP conference presentation paper "The balancing act of optimised value ...Anand Sheombar
Presentation about paper "The balancing act of optimised value creation",
Proceedings of the International Conference on Impact of
Base of the Pyramid Ventures, Delft, The Netherlands, 16 - 18 November, 2009.
Cooperation Issues In Developing The BOP Market - AMCISAnand Sheombar
The basic argument of this paper is that successful contribution of ICT to development goals is partly dependent on the nature of the cooperation between partners. Thus if there is a need to assess the contribution of ICT, then one needs to look further than just the basic quantitative measures and include cooperation issues as criteria for success. The purpose of the research reported in this paper was therefore to take one step closer towards a framework of cooperation issues in so-called BOP projects, specifically in the ICT arena, with the ultimate aim of developing a way to assess factors that may present a risk to the success of these projects. This framework could serve as the foundation for further research into developing a diagnostic instrument for this purpose.
Presentation by Gilbert Silvius for paper "Cooperation issues in developing the BOP market", AMCIS Proceedings , San Francisco, USA, August 2009.
BOP and ICT MNCs: Base of the Pyramid approach reflected on the strategy of m...Anand Sheombar
The Base of the Pyramid (BOP) comprises the majority of the world population. However, the majority seemed to be neglected by multinational companies, until recently. Since the landmark publications of Prahalad & Hart much more attention is attributed to the BOP.
This research examines the attention some multinational ICT companies have given to the BOP so far. A case study research was conducted of 5 projects involving multinational ICT companies, which were studied as separate case studies for this thesis, all in the geographical space of Africa.
Qualitative data was collected using the multiple case study method and the data was analyzed for emerging patterns. The cases were analyzed on three main units of analysis, namely the BOP businesses model & strategy, the products & services and the partnerships needed for engaging with the BOP community.
It was found that regarding BOP businesses model & strategy an assessment of the BOP business model qualities is useful. The study revealed in all cases a hybrid view of market creation and socio-economic development by (ICT) companies engaging with the BOP, dubbed a hybrid form of BOP 1.0 & 2.0 strategies. The research also suggests that for successful BOP ventures alignment is needed between “BOP Business model & strategy”, “Partnership” and the “BOP Product & Service development”. The BOP products and services development confirmed the presence of disruptive innovation and innovation blowback. It was found that problems with partnerships revolve around six core categories namely driving force factors, skill factors, input-output factors, socio-cultural factors, systems factors, and trust factors.
This thesis research was conducted by Anand Sheombar
Ontwikkelen Van De Base Of The Pyramid Markt - Projectie Magazine 2009Anand Sheombar
Onderzoek naar succesfactoren in businessmodel/strategie, partnership en product en service ontwikkeling in BOP projecten van multinational ICT bedrijven actief in Afrika.
Cooperation issues in developing the BOP marketAnand Sheombar
The basic argument of this paper is that successful contribution of ICT to development goals is partly dependent on the nature of the cooperation between partners. Thus if there is a need to assess the contribution of ICT, then one needs to look further than just the basic quantitative measures and include cooperation issues as criteria for success.
TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF COOPERATION ISSUES IN BASE OF THE PYRAMID PROJECTSAnand Sheombar
The purpose of the research reported in this paper was to take one step closer towards a framework of cooperation issues in so-called BOP projects, specifically in the ICT arena, with the ultimate aim of developing a way to assess factors that may present a risk to the success of these projects. This framework could serve as the foundation for further research into developing a diagnostic instrument for this purpose.
The Partnership Health of ICT Projects in Developing Countries - Pacis 2009...Anand Sheombar
The basic argument of this paper is that successful contributions in developing countries that are made with, and through, ICT are partly dependent on the health of the relationship between partners. The research was conducted in 10 projects involving multinational ICT companies. It was found that problems with partner cooperation revolve around six core categories namely driving force factors, skill factors, input-output factors, socio-cultural factors, systems factors, and trust factors.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
2. Session topics
• Digital Development
• Online Gender-Based
Violence (GBV)
• Examples of countering online
GBV
• Cordaid & online GBV
Feel free to ask questions any
time (MS Teams – raise hand
function, or in the chat)
18-11-2021
Image
Source:
Omidyar
Network
India
3. Introducing
myself:
Anand
Sheombar
• Postdoc researcher & lecturer HU university of Applied
Sciences Utrecht, NL.
• IT business consultant.
• PhD research on social media use by development NGOs.
• Research activities: digital/ICT for development, eHealth,
social media, online hate speech, digital transformation etc.
• Susainable & bean2bar chocoholic.
• Twitter @anandstweets
• Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoMe4D/
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https://eooh.eu/ https://www.africandigitalrightsnetwork.org/
4. Digital Development
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Changing Paradigms of ICTs and Development, source Heeks (2016)
“Digital development is far from nearly past; it has only just begun.” From ICT as tool for
delivery of development
(ICT4D) we gradually
move on to the digital
development paradigm
which conceptualizes ICT
not merely as a tool, but
as the platform that
increasingly mediates
development.
Why is a digital
development paradigm
emerging?
Changing development
priorities, digital
technologies, and
demographics.
5. Conceptual Frame for Digital Development
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1) Technology and Society: there is an inter-relation
between technology and society with each
connected to, and influencing the other. ICTs shape
society; society shapes ICTs.
2) Technology: because of this inter-relation, ICTs
cannot be thought of as just hardware and software.
ICTs are always socio-technical systems: a
network of software, hardware, people, processes,
institutions, etc involved in design, use and
governance.
3) Society: can be thought of as operating in three,
interlocked systems – economic, political,
social. Each of these shapes and is shaped by ICTs.
4) People: because ICT systems contain people, we
also recognise the inter-relation between agency
and structure. Human actions shape the
organisations and institutions of society; the
organisations and institutions of society shape
human action. Source: Heeks. (2016)
6. Global Social Media Use
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2021-october-global-statshot
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8. Reasons for Using Social Media (global survey)
https://hootsuite.widen.net/s/zcdrtxwczn/digital2021_globalreport_en 8
9. Social Media User vs Population by Gender
https://hootsuite.widen.net/s/zcdrtxwczn/digital2021_globalreport_en 9
10. Social Media (functionalities) in
International Development Context
Social
Media
Connecting
Collaborating
Creating &
Sharing
Finding, (Re)Using
& Organising
(Mayfield, 2008; Zuniga and White 2013)
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12. Online violence against women during COVID19
Infographic source: UN Women. (2021).
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Increased online
violence facilitated by
ICT during COVID-19
may impact:
• Women’s access to
online services
• Education and
employment
opportunities
• Women’s
participation as
active digital
citizens
Source: UN Women (2021)
13. Online Gender-Based Violence
Source: Hinson et al. (2018)
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Technology-Facilitated or Online Gender-Based
Violence “is action by one or more people that
harms others based on their sexual or gender
identity or by enforcing harmful gender norms.
This action is carried out using the internet and/or
mobile technology and includes stalking, bullying,
sexual harassment, defamation, hate speech and
exploitation.” (Hinson et al., 2018)
“…online violence targeted specifically because
of their gender, most frequently those who identify
as female, but also the asexual, bisexual, gay,
intersex, trans, intersex, queer, and lesbian
( LGBTIQA+)” (Wikipedia)
Misogynoir: anti-Black and misogynistic
representation of Black women, also in media &
digital space. (Dr. Moya Bailey)
14. Forms of online Gender-Based Violence
Common forms of ‘Technology-Facilitated
Gender-Based Violence’ (TFGBV) :
• Harassment
• Networked harassment
• Image-based sexual abuse (various forms)
• Public disclosure of private information
• Defamation
• Stalking
• Impersonation
• Threats
• Hate speech
Source: Dunn (2020)
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Image source: Centre for International Governance Innovation
Image source: UNESCO
Also think of combination of (online)
misogyny and discrimination/racism of
minority groups, and exposure when in high
public profile roles (e.g. politicians, media
figures, journalists, activists, scientists etc.)
15. Recommendations?
This UN Women EVAW COVID-19 brief provides recommendations for policy makers, women’s rights
organisations, civil society and technology firms on how to deal with online gender-based violence.
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Source: UN Women (2021)
16. Conceptual framework of technology-
facilitated Gender-Based Violence
“Using a framework like this from the
International Center for Research on Women
(ICRW), researchers and stakeholders can
collect data that show the prevalence and
impact of technology facilitated GBV globally.
Data collection and measurement can be
standardized, and we can start designing and
testing solutions that work, including
interventions to prevent and report such
violence, as well as effectively supporting
survivors.
Government and NGOs can use the data to
develop or update programs and policies
that better prevent and mitigate the
effects of technology-facilitated GBV in
their communities”
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“Conceptual framework of technology
facilitated GBV that illustrates the range of
experiences —from the motivation of the
perpetrator to the impact on and help-seeking
behaviors of victims/survivors.”
Source: Hinson et al. (2018)
17. Tech to reduce online Gender-Based Violence?
1. Tech for prevention: raise awareness and mitigate a user’s
risk of violence
2. Tech as a peer: providing real advice and resources from
experts and activists.
3. Tech as a virtual safe space: facilitate access to information
and services in a safe, culturally appropriate and accessible to
users.
4. Tech as a safeguard: to trigger an automated safeguarding
flow of GBV and psychosocial support information.
5. Tech as a guide: The GBV e-pocket guide app provides
humanitarian practitioners with information on how best to
support survivors when there is no GBV expert or service
available
6. Tech as a response: offers great opportunities for
improved GBV service provision, reach and response quality
Risk of techno-solutionism when not addressing root causes?
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https://blogs.unicef.org/east-asia-pacific/six-ways-tech-can-help-end-gender-based-violence/
Safetipin
18. A step-by-step Pocket Guide for humanitarian
practitioners
“The GBV Pocket Guide available in 20+ languages
The "Pocket Guide" resource package is designed to
provide all humanitarian practitioners with concrete
information on: How to support a survivor of gender-
based violence who disclosed to you in a context where
there is no gender-based violence actor (including a
referral pathway or GBV focal point) available in your
area.”
The pocket guide is “a field-friendly resource for
frontline practitioners in all humanitarian sectors.
Includes a decision tree, Do's/Don'ts, sample
scripts of what to say to a survivor ”
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https://gbvguidelines.org/en/pocketguide/
19. Violence against Women and Girls
(VAWG) Helpdesk
“Tackling online GBV around the world needs a range of
strategies; from the grassroots solidarity campaigns organised
by Take Back the Tech, national level legislation and school-
based interventions.
In India a study by the Internet Democracy project showed that
laws on cyber abuse of women have some value and women
used threats of police complaints and sections of the IT Act as
tools to fight harassers. But most women never resorted to
legal measures, and felt that engagements with law were
rarely favourable experiences for women.
But tackling the impunity of social media giants in the face
of the systematic harassment experienced by women online is
an important step.”
https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/tackling-online-gender-based-
violence/ 19
20. What Is Online Gender-Based Violence? – short video
“As our online and offline lives become
more integrated, gender-based
violence and its impacts now overlap
in both physical and digital spaces.
Perpetrators of intimate partner violence,
stalking and sexual harassment are now
using digital tools, such as social media
and GPS tracking, to cause harm
alongside in-person violence.
Digital tools have also opened the
door to new forms of abuse, such as
the non-consensual creation of sexual
images through artificial intelligence,
including deepfake videos.
The result of these new digitally enabled
abusive behaviours is what’s known as
online gender-based violence.”
(Suzie Dunn, Centre for International
Governance Innovation)
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Source: https://www.cigionline.org/multimedia/what-is-online-gender-based-violence/
21. Facebook (Meta;-) group
with curated news on Social
Media & Digital Technology
For Development - SoMe4D
in ICT4D
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoMe4D/
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23. References
• Datareportal, We Are Social, & Hootsuite (2021). Digital 2021 October Global
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