ICT can help to create a stronger voice for the feminism movement. That’s the belief of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Just Associates and Women’s Net who have just published a free toolkit that can help feminism activists and groups learn how ICT can help them build communication strategies for their movements.
The “ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit” contains five chapters and offers a guide to formulating a communications strategy using a number of available ICT tools such as social media, video and audio.
The toolkit draws on the experience and contexts of women activists in southern Africa and other regions.
The contents of the toolkit include guidelines on:
- Experimenting and being creative in the way you communicate
- Thinking about how communications can help build movements for social justice
- Developing a feminist communication strategy for your organisation that amplifies women’s voices and supports them to tell their own stories
- Thinking about which ICTs to use and when
- Adopting a feminist approach to your use and understanding of ICTs
- Communicating in ways that challenge gender stereotypes
- Thinking through safety and security concerns that women activists face when using technology
- Understanding how power works in design, governance and access to ICTs and challenge inequality in our world
- Designing a workshop for your organisation on ICTs and communications.
“We want movements that are effective, resilient, visible and safe. Building feminist communication strategies using ICTs helps us achieve this. ICTs impact us all, so we need to understand them, influence how they are developed, empower ourselves to use them and harness them to make a difference,” says the APC.
You can download the ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit for free on the APC website.
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