[APCPress] 16-day campaign starts: To Take Back the Tech! to end violence against women

[Karen Higgs]

 From today, APC joins women's rights activists all over the world to 
campaign to end violence against women.

Take Back the Tech! is the only campaign we know of in the world that 
focusses specifically on using technology to fight against violence 
(including online-generated violence) and to help women's rights 
activists use technology better. [For a mention see The Guardian 2007: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/06/gender.blogging]

Check out the campaign - and if you're interested, we can arrange 
interviews with any number of campaigners in more than twenty countries.

Best - Karen Higgs for APC

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TAKE BACK THE TECH!
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM: TAKE CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST 
WOMEN
www.TakeBackTheTech.net
25 Nov - 10 Dec
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 From 25 November to 10 December, get ready to click your mouse, flex 
your SMS fingers and engage full energy to take control of technology to 
end violence against women.

APC's Women’s Programme calls on users of the radio, television, 
internet, emails and mobile phones to Take Back the Tech!

//In Malaysia, women in the community are learning how to blog, and 
posting their perceptions on violence against women in their own 
language// //In Mexico, women's communication rights activists and 
journalists will take over Twitter for 16 days of feminist tweeting on 
technology how-tos and against violence against women// //In the 
Republic of Congo, students will write and perform a play on violence 
against women and technology//

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What is the campaign about?
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Take Back the Tech!  is a collaborative campaign for anyone using the 
internet and technology to protest violence against women (VAW). 
Initiated by APC's women's programme (APC WNSP) in 2006, and built by a 
diverse movement of individuals, organisations, collectives and 
communities, the campaign is part of the UN-sanctioned 16 Days of 
Activism Against Gender-based Violence which begins on November 25 each 
year.

It is our right to shape, define, participate, use and share knowledge, 
information and technology, and to create digital spaces that are safe 
and equal. Take Back the Tech! calls all users of information and 
communications technologies (ICTs) -especially girls and  women but also 
men and boys- to take control of technology and consciously use it to 
change unequal power relations.

Take Back the Tech! will be happening all over the world, including in 
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo 
(DRC), Republic of  Congo, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, 
South Africa, Uganda as part of APC WNSP's efforts to achieve Millenium 
development Goal 3 to promote gender equality and empower women 
http://www.apcwomen.org/node/695.

www.TakeBackTheTech.net

More: 
http://www.apc.org/en/news/16-day-campaign-starts-take-back-tech-end-violence