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 Showing up for those who go out on a limb

March 8th, 2023
Today we celebrate International women’s day this year under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.  Diverse stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations,  civil society, and others continue to advocate...
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African Feminist lens to Digital Rights

November 16th, 2022
MISA Zimbabwe in partnership with Internews (Greater Internet Freedom Project) hosted a virtual Digital Rights School targeting individuals from civil society, government, media or the legal profession in Zimbabwe My...
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My Data Rights – feminist resistance and resilience to data practices survey

March 25th, 2022
In January 2021, the developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers settled Federal Trade Commission (USA) allegations that the company shared the health...
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What if the data worked for us instead of against us? – Imagining feminist resilience and resistance in datafied societies in the African context.

March 11th, 2022
By Chenai Chair * The narrative around privacy and data protection, in particular from a gender and sexuality standpoint, is that of continued digital exclusion, inequality, dataveillance, privacy breaches, and...
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Workshop: Accept or Decline the cookies? – Gender, Privacy and Data with African feminists

March 12th, 2022
Date:  Friday 18th of March 2022 (11:30 - 1PM CAT) https://www.youtube.com/embed/3XQ-d36-5tg My Data Rights (Africa) is carrying out research to establish what action can be taken by feminist activists to...
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A feminist approach to assessing AI, privacy and data protection in South Africa

December 5th, 2020
The replication of existing inequalities, development of new social injustices and unequal power dynamics impact the difference in experiences of AI and machine learning systems for marginalised groups. A feminist...
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