2020 – 2023
Feminist Digital Justice (FDJ) is a collaborative research and advocacy initiative launched in 2020 by DAWN and IT for Change that reimagines the emerging techno-social paradigm from a Southern feminist perspective. As part of the Just Net Coalition there is a wider project ‘Rebooting digital justice in a post-COVID world’, working towards a systematic development of digital governance perspectives in key sectors of development to develop cross-cutting principles for digital and data governance from the standpoint of equity and justice. In order to build a robust advocacy agenda, the project is executed through nine thematically focused nodes to convene and anchor groups—one of which includes DAWN and IT for Change. Responding to the urgent need for transformative Southern visions in the digital era, FDJ calls on feminists to engage critically with the political economy of data. In March 2023, the project goes on to launch the Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice at CSW63, co-created by 36 feminist scholars and activists.
Alongside this initiative, DAWN publishes two DAWN Informs editions featuring key articles and coalition work, advancing a gender-just digital agenda that confronts exclusion and exploitation across digital platforms, welfare systems, and the data economy. The issue papers and articles on the Bot Populi, an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice, and Global South perspective, are contributions to these collective dialogues.
