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November 10, 2008: Day#1 of the Feminist Technology Exchange in South Africa
November 10, 2008: Day One of the Feminist Technology Exchange
For two weeks in November 2008, I, I.M.O.W. Curator Masum Momaya will be blogging from Cape Town, South Africa to bring you women organizing internationally - LIVE! Follow my reflections and view videos and hear audio from the Feminist Technology Exchange and AWID International Forum.
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Manal, Ore and Christina are teach the nuts and bolts of social networking at the Feminist Technology Exchange in South Africa
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Feminist Technology Exchange's logo-woman, Kolena Laila (which means "we are all this woman" in Arabic)
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The Transnational Tag Cloud at the FTX
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The view from my cottage in Cape Town
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Today, I am writing from Day #1 of the Feminist Technology Exchange or FTX. As I mentioned in my very first post, the whole idea of FTX is to share ideas about how individuals and organizations are using technologies like digital stories, video, audio, SMS and social networking to foster social change. The cool thing is that all the sessions are all led by young women from around the world. They came here to Cape Town a few days earlier to cull examples and design trainings to share with the rest of us.
The trainers in the “track” I am a part of are all young women bloggers. Manal blogs from Egypt, Ore blogs from Nigeria and Christina, who is Bulgarian, blogs from Montreal. In many places in the world where organizations don’t have the capacity to mount fancy websites, individuals serve as agents of knowledge sharing, blogging both on behalf of themselves and of organizations and movements they are associated with.
Even though I grew up in a context where women were encouraged to use technology, it’s very empowering to learn from and with young women who are so proficient, savvy and creative. If you were to walk into the room I’ve been sitting in today, you wouldn’t think that there was anything that could limit the potential of women’s use of technology. Women + Technology = Power. See the logo of FTX (shown at the left) for a visual representation of this. Superman reclaimed.
The last thing I wanted to share with you today was my “experience” of a transnational tag cloud. Our icebreaker activity this morning was to write words that we associate with social networking on colored pieces of paper. They were all stuck on the wall and then clustered into groups based on how frequent certain words were used. This (see the outcome at the left) was our transnational tag cloud!
Finally, in case you were wondering, Cape Town is breathtaking.
Until soon,
Masum
The trainers in the “track” I am a part of are all young women bloggers. Manal blogs from Egypt, Ore blogs from Nigeria and Christina, who is Bulgarian, blogs from Montreal. In many places in the world where organizations don’t have the capacity to mount fancy websites, individuals serve as agents of knowledge sharing, blogging both on behalf of themselves and of organizations and movements they are associated with.
Even though I grew up in a context where women were encouraged to use technology, it’s very empowering to learn from and with young women who are so proficient, savvy and creative. If you were to walk into the room I’ve been sitting in today, you wouldn’t think that there was anything that could limit the potential of women’s use of technology. Women + Technology = Power. See the logo of FTX (shown at the left) for a visual representation of this. Superman reclaimed.
The last thing I wanted to share with you today was my “experience” of a transnational tag cloud. Our icebreaker activity this morning was to write words that we associate with social networking on colored pieces of paper. They were all stuck on the wall and then clustered into groups based on how frequent certain words were used. This (see the outcome at the left) was our transnational tag cloud!
Finally, in case you were wondering, Cape Town is breathtaking.
Until soon,
Masum
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Feminist Technology Exchange , feminism , blog , digital storytelling , social networking , social change , AWID Forum , South Africa , transnational organizing , áfrica , feminismo , tecnología , التقنية , مناصرة المرأة
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LIVE! FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Entry 1: Cape Town Bound
Entry 2: Politics of Border Crossings
Entry 3: Day One
Entry 4: Sounds & Sights
Entry 5: After Russia
Entry 6: Mo(ve)ments that Move Us
Entry 7: The Women of South Africa
أفريقيا الأعمال الفنية آسيا الحملة المرشح الرسوم المتحركة النزاع أمينة المعرض الاقتصاد تمكين أوروبا الأزياء مناصرة المرأة الحكومة القاعدة السياسية رؤساء الدول التاريخ حقوق الإنسان الإنترنت الإسلام الصحافة أمريكا اللاتينية القيادة المشرّع الشرق الأوسط أمريكا الشمالية تنظّم السلام بودكاست حزب سياسي السياسيون تحمي حق الاقتراع التقنية أدوات الأمم المتحدة حجاب فيديو العنف الصوت
مطلوب مدافعات شابات عن المساواة بين الجنسين
يسعى "برنامج نشاط الشابات المدافعات عن حقوق المساواة بين الجنسين" التابع لاتحاد حقوق المرأة في التنمية إلى تكثيف أصوات النساء من كل أنحاء العالم عن طريق إنشاء فرص مثيرة للانخراط والتغيير. انضمي. - اللغة الإنجليزية، واللغة الفرنسية، واللغة الأسبانية
