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PADEAP

Location(s)

Kamokya
kampala, xx
Uganda

ict training and advocating for refugees

gitmyn

Location(s)

CIADHUD
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Centro de Investigación y Accion en Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo. (CIADHUD)
Grupo de Investigacion sobre la trata de mujeres y niñas en Argentina (Gitmyn)
El CIADHUD es una organizacion sin ánimo de lucro que interviene en la promoción de los derechos humanos a través de la investigación y el diseño de proyectos y acciones concretas.

Film Anonymous

Location(s)

Central Market Annex
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Filmmakers Anonymous
Filmmakers Anonymous is a gathering of new and emerging films; compiled, not curated,
from among like-minded people who are just addicted to making films - for
whatever noble or twisted reasons.

Open Institute

Location(s)

Phnom Penh

The Open Institute is a local non-governmental and not-for-profit organization. It presently runs five programs: Khmer Software Initiative, Women Empowerment for Social Change, Open Learning, Press Review publications and Lexicography.

Our women program aims at promoting gender quality in which women can use their rights in a balanced manner and build capacity to become self-sufficient.

The women program carries out three main activity:
- Women's web portal, women.open.org.kh, in the Khmer language
- ICT training for women's organizations and those who work on women's related issues.

Silence Speaks

Location(s)

Silence Speaks Digital Story Telling Initiative
United States
See map: Google Maps

Silence Speaks is an international digital storytelling initiative that aims to provide survivors and witnesses of violence and other forms of trauma with a safe, supportive venue in which to tell their stories in video format.

A project of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), Silence Speaks has over the past eight years conducted a total of 32 intensive workshops in locations throughout the U.S. as well as in South Africa, Australia, Canada, and Uganda.

APC Africa Women (AAW)

Location(s)

WENT Digital Telling Workshop 2007
Durban
South Africa

Women'sNet conducted a Women's Electronic Network Training (WENT) Digital Story Telling workshop for APC-Africa-Women (AAW), on 25-29 August 2007
The workshop aimed to create content by and for women, develop content for Take Back the Tech initiative which aims to reclaim ICTs to end violence against women during the 16 Days of Activism (25 November to 10 December), develop the ICT skills and capacity of women, strengthen organisations and enable women to share and network amongst each other
One blog entry written taking random sentences from the first day of story circle:

FAT

Location(s)

F.A.T.
New Delhi
India

Women'sNet South Africa

Location(s)

South Africa
South Africa

Women'sNet, a South African NGO is involved in the following activities:
1. A camapign to get 2 national lines a free call from a cellphone (more below)
2. a workshop and event for girls (more below)
3. An SMS campaign with a Ugandan organisation: WOUGNET

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1. Calling for help: Make the Stop Gender Violence and AIDS Helplines a Free Call from Cellphones!

(petition ends 12 December 2007)

Akcija Zdruzenska

Location(s)

Skopje
Skopje
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

International "16 Days of Activism Against violence of " / November 25 –December 10, 2007

Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Agains Women

This year campaign You have right! Demand protection from domestic violence, will be implemented as a mutual action from Akcija Zdruzhenska, ESE, National SOS Phone Line for victims, ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and Ministry of Interior.

g2g

Location(s)

scattered all over the country but in Salvador for /etc-br
Salvador
Brazil

g2g is a diverse group of women located in different parts of Brazil who are rethinking, among other things, gender and technology. We are connected by a discussion list, a website and occasional face to face encounters.

g2g is taking part in the take back the tech (retome a tecnologia) campaign for the second time, posting Portuguese translations of the daily actions on its blog (http://www.interfaceg2g.org) and on a couple of discussion lists, collecting relevant bookmarks, and more... A special highlight this year is that from 2 to 5 December 2007 various members of g2g will take part in the first Brazilian edition of the Eclectic Tech Carnival, or /etc-br (see http://etc.interfaceg2g.org), to be held in Salvador in Bahia state. During the "three days of discussions and workshops between women about women and technology and horizontal practices" - taking back the tech - we will be discussing the campaign and incorporating its themes and actions where relevant and possible.

University of the Philippines Mindanao Gender Committee

Location(s)

University of the Philippines Mindanao, Bago Oshiro
Davao City
Philippines

The UP Mindanao Gender Committee focuses on academic, research, extension, and advocacy related to gender issues that would contribute to establishing gender responsive and women-friendly school services in Mindanao.

16 days of activism against Violence Against Women - Macedonia

Location(s)

Skopje
Skopje
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Cotidiano Mujer - CDI uruguay

Location(s)

CDI training room
Montevideo
Uruguay

Personas que están participando de las capacitaciones de Cotidiano Mujer y CDI están reunidos para discutir temas de violencia hacia las mujeres y TIC. La idea es aprender a hacer blogs y poder participar así desde Uruguay. 

¡Vamos a estar publicando fotos y links a los nuevos blogs!  Puedes verlas en este video.

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

Location(s)

Plot 53 Kira Road
Kampala
Uganda

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organization initiated in May 2000 by several women’s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively. The mission of WOUGNET is to promote and support the use of ICTs by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of Sustainable National Development.

Take back the tech UK

Location(s)

UK
London
United Kingdom

Take Back the Tech UK is organised by a group of women's rights activists from various UK organisations who are committed to ending violence against women, and in this campaign, are supporting and encouraging women to reclaim and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their work to stop violence against women.
Resistance is IT!