digital stories 2007 campaign

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Putting technology in the hands of survivors. Listen to them speak their own powerful stories of courage and transformation.

WENT Africa digital storytelling workshop was hosted in Durban, South Africa from 25-29 August 2007. Organised and facilitated by APC-Africa-Women in partnership with Women'sNet, thirteen women spent 5 days sharing, planning, developing, and making their digital stories on their experiences or their witness to violence against women.

More: WENT Africa Digital Telling Workshop

Les demons des Traditions Maliennes, by Assetou DIARRA

Break the Chains
by Caren Atieno Otieno

Changing patterns
by Ingrid

Loira gelada
by Tatiana Wells

Silence Speaks, a project for Digital Storytelling , 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. As part of Take Back The Tech, stories created in Silence Speaks and other workshops sponsored by Silence Speaks in 2007 are shared here.

More: Silence Speaks

Pauletta's Story
Domestic Violence, USA

Kim's Story – Domestic Violence, USA

Betty's Story – Young Women & Conflict Situation, Uganda

Dinah's Story – Young Women & Conflict Situation, Uganda

Federesi's Story – Women's Reproductive Health, Uganda

Mastula's Story – Women's Reproductive Health, Uganda

Thandiwe's Story – HIV/AIDS, Swaziland

Mamonyake's Story – Right to Remedy, Lesotho

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This campaign is organised by the Association of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP).

APC WNSP is a global network of more than 175 women in over 55 countries promoting gender equality in the design, implementation, access and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and in the policy decisions and frameworks that regulate them.

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