brief
What is this action?
- A collaborative campaign to reclaim information & communications technologies (ICTs) to end violence against women (VAW).
- 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"?
- Creating digital spaces that protects everyone’s right to move freely, without harassment or threat to safety (echoing "Take Back The Night" campaigns).
- Realising our rights to shape, define, participate, use & share knowledge, information and ICTs.
- Addressing the intersections between communication rights and women’s human rights, especially violence against women.
- Recognising women’s historical and critical participation and contribution to the development of ICTs (e.g. Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper...)
What are the goals of this action?
- Build knowledge on how VAW is connected with ICTs, based on diverse experiences and realities.
- Support and promote local actions, priorities and advocacy issues on VAW & ICTs in different spaces and contexts.
- Collaboratively create strategies on using ICTs tactically to counter VAW.
- Changing the landscape, potential & paradigm of ICTs through active participation.
- To facilitate movement building on the human rights of women in relation to the field of ICTs.
Who to speak to?
- Web communities and users
- Advocates against VAW
- Women's rights defenders
- People who profit from VAW
- Media, information & news providers
- Policy and law makers
Who will take action?
- Ordinary ICTs users - grrl, woman, female ICTs users
- ICTs developers
- Information provider & disseminator
- Content creators
- Knowledge builders
Basically anyone who from librarians, lecturers, writers, techies, geek grrls, bloggers, emailers, SMSers, trainers, storytellers, poets, writers, web managers, theorists, graffiti artists, photographers....
What resources are available?
- Information about VAW & ICTs
- ICT tips and tools to counter VAW online
- Space for discussion and exchange to build knowledge & discourse
- Platform for your ideas and campaign actions
- Links to other spaces, people, info & strategies
How can you take back the tech? (some suggestions)
- Put up a campaign banner on your site.
- Come up with ideas for action that can be taken in the 16 days.
- Think of networks or initiatives or online communities you know that will take on the campaign and localise this!
- Share video clips, audio files, images, graphics, doodles & other kinds of content.
- Submit tools or write guides that you think are useful.
- Translate resources into your own languages
- Write, blog, talk, document – join ka-BLOG! or create your own blogging community and tactics.
- Discuss & build knowledge on this issue from your experiences and strategies dealing with VAW online.
- Make your own campaign icons. Create new imagery
Or start a local campaign!
- Brainstorm with a few people whom you think might be interested to raise this issue in your town, community, country or region
- What are the urgent issues in terms of VAW & ICTs?
- What’s the one change you’d like to see happen, and how can the campaign help achieve that?
- Think of simple, creative & concrete actions, or just get a few people together to take daily actions collectively
- Don't forget to share your campaign :)
Questions to initiate action
- What are your thoughts of this action?
- Can you take part in it?
- What do you need to take back control of ICTs? (access? community? information? strategies?)
- What do you see is missing?
- How can you take back the tech?
- What can you do online? What spaces do you have access to?
- How do you use technology now?
- What tactics can you implement for 16 Days to highlight the connection between ICTs and VAW?
next: campaign toolbox - images, tagging & other useful stuff to help build your campaign!








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