Towards Feminist Digital Justice
In this issue, we delve into the profound impact of digitalisation on women and LGBTI+ rights in the global South. Beyond navigating the challenges of a digitally mediated world, we’re also setting the stage for activism that supports the feminist digital justice agenda.
It is urgent that our struggles for liberation reclaim the digital realm
Agustina Calcagno
Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice, and Global South perspective. It covers and reports on the ways in which the digital world affects different aspects of our lives, in obvious as well as in unexpected ways.
IT for Change is a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit organisation engaged in research, policy advocacy and field practice at the intersections of digital technologies and social change, with a specific focus on social justice and gender equality.
The Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice
DAWN and IT for Change launched the much-awaited Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice. The Declaration was born out of a collaboration between 36 feminist scholars and activists worldwide and outlined the issues of a new gender-just digital compact to address intersectional exclusion and exploitation in the platform public, the digital welfare state, and the data & AI economy.
The global communications agora and emerging metaverse technologies must be reclaimed from the jaws of surveillance capitalism.
Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice
Towards a Feminist Digital Justice Vision: Issue Mapping of Critical Considerations
The Working Group on Feminist Digital Justice was co-convened by Development Alternatives with Womenfor a New Era (DAWN) and IT for Change as part of Just Net Coalition’s ‘Digital Justice’ initiative. The Working Group met over 2021-22 to co-develop this Background Paper and frame The Declaration of Feminist Digital Justice.
The commodification of feminism and the appropriation of feminist discourses by Big Tech needs to be challenged by reclaiming the internet’s communication commons.
Working Group on FDJ
Issue Papers
A series of issue papers that traces the contours of a feminist development agenda for the digital economy.
Feminist Challenges on a Digital World
Feminist authors from across the global South raise critical questions about data sovereignty, digital security, data privacy and protection. These reflections give us new clues and open up new pathways to continue imagining a feminist future in the digital justice world.
For an increasing number of Pacific Islanders, mobile phones are a means to overcome demographic, geographic and economic challenges.
Sala Weleilakeba