It's time for the Second Annual Take Back the Tech Campaign. Here's the call to action:
ka-BLOG! Calling all bloggers to contaminate the blogosphere with activism on VAW for 16 days.
ka-BLOG is a 16-day blog fest for the Take Back the Tech Campaign. It is open to anyone and everyone - girls, boys, everyone beyond and more -- who want to share their thoughts on violence against women, and how online communications can exacerbate or help eliminate VAW.
What is the campaign about?
Take Back The Tech is simply a call for every person– women and men, who uses information & communication technologies, e.g. mobile phone, internet, radio etc., to use them for activism against VAW (violence against women). Unequal power relations lie at the heart of VAW, and this is apparent from the streets to online spaces. So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence.
Read more about the issue here.
How to Participate
My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. The full call to action, packed with ideas and tips on how to participate can be found here. He has a post in English about it here.
My colleague, Kong Sidroth, who runs the Wom@n's portal for Khmer Women, a project of the Open Institute (creaters of the KhmerOS software) has also placed a version of the graphic in Khmer.
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