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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2): by Ting-Yi Chang — published Sep 18, 2016 — last modified Sep 22, 2016 07:55 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Gender, Wikipedia, Wikipedia gender gap, Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1): by Ting-Yi Chang — published Sep 18, 2016 — last modified Sep 21, 2016 10:13 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Gender, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka: by Ting-Yi Chang — published Sep 01, 2016 — last modified Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Gender, Konkani Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Event
Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
The Gay Pride Charade: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 25, 2016 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Flashpoint #TrollControl: Maneka versus NCW: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 09, 2016 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
Amidst the debate over controlling online trolls - the proposal by Union Women and Child Development Minister to curb violence against women on the internet has triggered a fight between the minister and the National Commission for Women (NCW).
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Women's Safety? There is an App for That: by Rohini Lakshané — published May 19, 2016 — last modified Jan 10, 2017 02:48 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
“After locking ourselves in a room for more than 6 days, this is what we came out [sic] with. Join us in helping make WOMEN feel SAFE,” read a gloating press release about a smartphone app for women to notify their near ones that they were in distress. It was one among many such PRs frequently landing in my mailbox after the rape and murder of a young student on board a private bus in Delhi in 2012.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Why The New Government Policy Mandating Panic Buttons On Phones Isn’t Going To Protect Women: by Prasad Krishna — published May 15, 2016 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
Recently, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted about new rules mandating a panic button in every cell phone sold in the country from January 2017. To keep ladies safe, of course.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
A Selection of Tweets on How to Make Crowdmaps Effectual for Mapping Violence against Women: by Rohini Lakshané — published Feb 19, 2015 — last modified Mar 12, 2015 12:42 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
This is a collection of tweets by Rohini Lakshane on making crowdmaps more effective for mapping gender violence. The compilation of tweets has been republished by GenderIT.org.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Re-Wiring Women's Rights Debates in the Digital Age: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 19, 2014 — last modified Feb 12, 2015 05:07 PM — filed under: Gender, Video, Internet Governance, ICT
IT for Change in partnership with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan and ANANDI organized this event on September 13 and 14, 2014. Rohini Lakshane participated as a speaker.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 20, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 04:07 AM — filed under: Gender, Digital Humanities
Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities

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