Five women writing about new media, activism and development
Category: <span>Gender Equality</span>

Category: Gender Equality

Blogging – A Beginner’s Reflections

Aina, Nina, Rozarina, Sorina and I put together this blog in six weeks. As reflected in the theme that brough us together – i.e. “New Media, Social Movements and Development” – Five4ThePeople is a blog of mostly amateurs exploring the link between new media, development and any types of activism …

New media and technology: A reflection to blogging as part of ICT4D

New media has been described as anything that is delivered digitally to you such as emails, websites, mobiles and any internet-related form of communication[1]. However looking at this description in relation to activism and development; it is lacking some depth and concept.  Some definitions of new media focus exclusively upon …

Reflecting on New Media, Activism, and Technology

As I conclude my blogging journey, it has become gradually more apparent that blogging about development often does not remain a merely virtual process, but instead inspires real-life connections with deep, lasting impacts (Denskus & Papan, 2013). This final blog post will tie together the topics I have explored in …

On Ketty Nivyabandi and her atypical journey as an “active citizen”

Image above: Ketty Nivyabandi kneels down in exasperation during the 13 May 2015 women-only led protests. Photo by © Joseph Ndayisenga From leader of the first ever women-only street protests in Bujumbura, Burundi to Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, anglophone branch In my first blog post a few weeks ago, a …

New media and technology: Can it help to close the gender imbalance in social studies?

At our recent group blog presentations, I cannot help but noticed that many of the blogs written were taking a lens from a female-feminist perspective, in other word most of my peers in the C4D study are women.  I am of course writing this from a traditional slightly bias view …

mHealth and the Gender Digital Divide

Technology and the Internet as a whole can be a great enabler for women and girls, but a lack of opportunities, skills, and a fear of online discrimination prevents many women from leveraging digital tools to improve their health, advance their education, or find employment. This blog will build on …

Waking up (in) the development sector – time to centre anti-racist efforts!

It is a long overdue reckoning with race that is currently taking place globally and across (hopefully) all sectors as a direct consequence not only of the #BlackLivesMatter protest but also as a response to locally embedded and deeply engrained oppressive structures.

Gender and digital violence in transnational perspective cases from Egypt and Jordan

In my previous blog entitled New Media and Technology and the gendering of the social world, I discussed how digital violence is a way to silence people from participation and could lead to a gender democratic deficit if we do not stop it.  I laid discussion and presented researches how …

Event Summary: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy

This blog post will focus on an event I attended (virtually, of course) on October 8, 2020. As a Canadian female with an educational background and avid interest in foreign policy, my attention was immediately drawn to this event, aptly named “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy: Past, Present, Future”. I recognize …

New media and technology and the gendering of the social world

In my previous blog entitled new media and technology: does it make for a less violent society, I referred to a statement made by the well-known historian Niall Ferguson on a Danish television program recently.  He said and I am paraphrasing “today we don’t find real violence, only online violence, …