By KOMAS
How many hours a day do you spend using some kind of ICT tool?
Have you ever wondered how it connects with violence against women?
Can things like mobile phones, webcams, blogs and videogames transform power relations between women and men?
For 16 days, this campaign has one call: take control of information communications technology, and use it in activism to eliminate violence against women.
In support of this action, Komas has decided come up with a free space for video uploads onto the internet. You, that basically mean anyone, can shoot anything to do with gender violence and discrimination and send it to us; we will help you upload it to our website. We will of course publicize about this space for people to view and enable a comment section for discussion about the video.
Who can shoot?
Anyone, no grammy awards or experience needed. Cool eh.
What to shoot on?
Your handphone camera, digital camera video mode, or homevideo. Just send us the file online or if you don’t know how, contact us. If you happen to shoot on 16 or 35 mm film and would like us to put it up as well, we won’t discriminate; we swear but please convert it to a mini-dv format first.
What’s the duration?
We would appreciate anything less than 5 mins. However if you have a 2 hours movie available, you can make a trailer about it and we can link it to your website.
Is there a deadline?
Before Dec 10, which is the last day of VAW would be great but we foresee this space to be a continuous space and also be extended to other human rights cause as well.
Should it be made this year?
It can be made any year, made by your grandma or your daughter, as long as it’s relevant to the issue.
So what’s the issue?
Ahh, the most important question. Read the issue below and be inspired.
The Issue
The root cause of violence against women (VAW) lies in unequal power relations between men and women in almost all facets of life. The field of information communications technology (ICTs) faces the same gender disparity. As a result, digital spaces like the internet, broadcast and telecommunications have become defined and developed according to dominant perspectives of masculinities.
This means that VAW that happened in physical spaces like the home and streets, are now also taking new forms and occurring in digital spaces. For example, domestic violence abusers have used tools like spyware and GPS to track and control their partner’s mobility.
APC WNSP believes that both ICTs and VAW affect our capacity to completely enjoy our human rights and fundamental freedoms. Our right to move freely without harassment or threats to safety also applies to digital spaces.
This 16-day campaign aims to engage greater participation by all civil society, especially grrls and women ICT-users, to think about this issue in diverse contexts and realities. By calling for all users to reclaim control over technology, we are asking for the right to define, access, use and shape ICTs for its potential to transform power relations, towards a vision and reality of equality.
You can find more information about the issues here.
What is this action?
A call to everyone - especially grrls and women - to take control of ICTs and consciously use it to change power relations between men and women.
For 16 Days (Nov 25 - Dec 10), to enable users to employ ICTs for activism against VAW.
More information about the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
Why “Take Back The Tech”?
Reclaiming women’’s critical participation and contribution to ICTs (e.g. Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper
Echoing the “Take Back The Night” campaign - Reclaiming the ’streets’ of digital or online spaces
Insisting on our right to move freely without harassment or threat to safety on digital or online spaces.
Exercising our right to shape, define, participate, use and share all things related to ICTs.
What are the goals of this action?
To raise awareness about the way ICTs is connected to VAW.
To provide simple strategies on how incidences of VAW can be minimised online.
To generate a discourse around the connections between ICTs and VAW in online and offline spaces.
To build a community that will continue to strategise around eliminating VAW through, and in ICTs spaces
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For more information and questions, send an email to: mien.ly[at]gmail[dot]com
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