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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:15:34 -0400
To: ywl (at) ox.eicat.ca
From: ywl (at) awid.org
Subject: [AWID YWL] AWID: Feminist Tech Exchange
Feminist Tech Exchange: Call for applications
10-12 November 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline: 1 July 2008 Extended to 13th July
What does technology have to do with feminism? How can we, as women's rights activists, use tools better and combine digital and traditional communication strategies to strengthen our advocacies and activism? Join us at the first Feminist Tech Exchange this November, and be part of a growing movement that strategically integrates information and communication technologies (ICT) with the human rights of women.
What is the FTX?
The Feminist Tech Exchange, also known as the FTX, is an event preceeding the AWID Forum 2008 that will bring together more than 100 advocates and activists from Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America working on women's rights, feminism and communication rights. It is a three-day exchange where we will discuss issues, build skills and share our knowledge and experiences on ICT and how they can strengthen our advocacies and activism.
After the exchange, FTX participants will directly put knowledge and skills learnt into action at the AWID Forum, by engaging in the strategic use of ICT for movement building through content creation, skills sharing and conversations.
What is it trying to do?
The FTX aims to:
* build the skills of feminist and women's rights movements in the creative and strategic use of ICT
* provide a space for open discussions on the connections between ICT issues and women's rights agenda, as well as on feminist politics and practices of technology.
* create partnerships between advocates working on women's rights and feminism with those working in the field of ICT to sustain movement-building;
* develop a community of trainers who can continue to support knowledge and skills building, even after the exchange
What are the skills exchanged at the FTX?
There will be five ICT capacity building tracks at the FTX. They will run at the same time, so participants will be following one specific track during the three days. There will also be discussions of technology issues and skills exchange sessions open to all participants during the FTX, where you can initiate topics for conversation or share your know-how.
The ICT capacity building tracks are:
Track 1: Digital storytelling for transformation
Digital storytelling is a way of using pictures, images, video, text and audio to tell stories in one's own voice. This hands-on approach combines new digital media skills for women tell their own stories. Digital stories are emerging as a very powerful medium for spreading advocacy messages that are grounded in women's realities.
Track 2: Social networking technologies for activism
Social networking technologies has a special role to play in strategies for activism or for building campaigns. Technologies like blogs, social bookmarking sites, online communities, tagging and so on can be powerful mediums to build communities, get people actively engaged with your message and to take action. This track will look at how we can strategically and creatively adapt these platforms and tools to build movements and advocacy campaigns.
Track 3: Wireless and mobile technologies for advocacy
Wireless and mobile technologies can transform the communication possibilities for communities that have been traditionally cut off from the wired telecoms networks that control people's access to telephones, faxes and the internet. This track will look at how community wireless and mobile networks offer cheap and accessible communication for your advocacy strategies.
Track 4: Audio for action
Community radio is a local, accessible and potentially powerful way of getting your message out. Podcasting is a simple way to produce audio content (digital media files) that can be distributed over the internet. This track will explore how participants can use audio formats for the internet or for community radio.
Track 5: Video for justice
This track focuses on video as a compelling medium to document violations of rights, record living testimonies and narrate diverse perspectives. The track also looks at how publishing and dissemination of video can be strengthened through ICT.
Who can attend?
The FTX is open to all, especially to support participation from:
* Women’s rights and feminist advocates interested in connecting their advocacies with communication rights issues;
* Women’s rights and feminist advocates interested in building their capacity in ICT for the purposes of movement building;
* Women web managers, developers, ICT trainers, exchange-supporters, and those who perform ICT-based work for their organisations; and
* Researchers working in communications rights and knowledge networking who are interested in women's rights and feminist issues.
How to apply?
Fill in the application form and submit it before the deadline. You can fill it directly online, or send it to us via email.
Online application form: http://ftx.apcwomen.org/application/
Email (for submission or a copy of the application form): ftx-apply (at) apcwomen.org
Deadline for the submission is: 1 July 2008
Please note that a level of familiarity with ICT, women’s rights, communication rights and feminism will be required. Participants will be selected with an eye to representing a range of advocacy areas, ICT skills and regional diversity, prioritising participants from the developing countries. The Feminist Tech Exchange will be carried out predominantly in English. Interpretation support is being organised for different aspects of the Exchange.
Scholarships will be provided for deserving participants. If you are a recipient of AWID's Access Fund and your application to FTX is successful, all your costs will be covered. This includes international travel, accommodation, meals and local transport in Cape Town. If you are not one of the Access Fund recipients, FTX scholarships can only cover your accommodation, meals and local transport in Cape Town.
Who are the organisers?
The FTX is organised by the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). The local hosting partner for this event is APC WNSP member Women'sNet, a South African feminist organisation working on gender and ICT.
Websites for more information:
APC WNSP: http://www.apcwomen.org
AWID: http://www.awid.org
Women'sNet: http://www.womensnet.org.za/
We look forward to you joining the FTX in Cape Town!
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