{"id":2269,"date":"2021-09-11T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:01:59","slug":"2020-21-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bt_bb_wrapper\">\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2269\" class=\"elementor elementor-2269\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a5aa6d2 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7a5aa6d2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-591093a\" data-id=\"591093a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1588a871 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-nav-menu--dropdown-tablet elementor-nav-menu__text-align-aside elementor-nav-menu--toggle elementor-nav-menu--burger elementor-widget elementor-widget-nav-menu\" data-id=\"1588a871\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;sticky&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;sticky_on&quot;:[&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;],&quot;layout&quot;:&quot;horizontal&quot;,&quot;submenu_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&lt;i class=\\&quot;fas fa-caret-down\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/i&gt;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;fa-solid&quot;},&quot;toggle&quot;:&quot;burger&quot;,&quot;sticky_offset&quot;:0,&quot;sticky_effects_offset&quot;:0}\" data-widget_type=\"nav-menu.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav migration_allowed=\"1\" migrated=\"0\" role=\"navigation\" class=\"elementor-nav-menu--main elementor-nav-menu__container elementor-nav-menu--layout-horizontal e--pointer-underline e--animation-fade\"><ul id=\"menu-1-1588a871\" class=\"elementor-nav-menu\"><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2995\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3409\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-directors-note\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">Directors\u2019 Note<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3386\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-team\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-3335\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21\/#theme\" class=\"elementor-item elementor-item-anchor\">Thematic Areas<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2998\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-digital-economy\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01. Digital Economy and Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2996\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-democratizing-digital-justice\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02. Democratizing Digital Justice<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-prakriye\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03. Prakriye Field Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3001\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-education\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04. 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Gender Justice in the Digital Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3250\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-social-report\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">Social Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3002\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-publications\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">List of Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2997\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-events\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">List of Events<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-toggle\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Menu Toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"eicon-menu-bar\"><\/i>\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Menu<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<nav class=\"elementor-nav-menu--dropdown elementor-nav-menu__container\" role=\"navigation\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><ul id=\"menu-2-1588a871\" class=\"elementor-nav-menu\"><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2995\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3409\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-directors-note\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">Directors\u2019 Note<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3386\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-team\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-3335\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21\/#theme\" class=\"elementor-item elementor-item-anchor\" tabindex=\"-1\">Thematic Areas<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2998\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-digital-economy\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01. 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Gender Justice in the Digital Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3250\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-social-report\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">Social Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-3002\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-publications\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">List of Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-2997\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-events\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">List of Events<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4cf98cab elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4cf98cab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size: 32px; color: #630363;\">Gender Justice in the Digital Society<\/span><\/strong><\/h1><p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Gender justice in relation to technology is not a simplistic, depoliticized idea of access and inclusion. It is about transforming the potential of platform, data, and AI technologies; creating a society and economy that reflects a different set of values for the digital paradigm. Our research, policy engagement, and alliances with progressive feminist groups and organizations across the world, have attempted to re-appropriate the narrative around gender debates in the digital discourse, showing how and why democratic institutions adequate to gender equality need to be at the core of digital justice.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We have taken a three-pronged approach to this domain. First, build a feminist economics framework for emerging data economies that proposes an alternative platform model for enterprise development and future of work strategies. Second, provide conceptual leadership for new governance mechanisms in the digitally-mediated public sphere. Third, widen feminist alliance-building to collectively and effectively tackle the excesses of digital capitalism.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The sections below describe the key highlights of our work this year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8445cb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8445cb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gender-collage-resized.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gender-collage-resized.jpg 780w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gender-collage-resized-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gender-collage-resized-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Media and research pieces by Ankita Aggarwal, Anita Gurumurthy, Khawla Zainab and Sadhana Sanjay.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6131ac8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6131ac8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 24px;\"><b>Centering Women in India\u2019s Digitalizing Economy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In 2020-21,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> we continued our research and policy engagement efforts to bring gender perspectives into the mainstream policy discourse on India\u2019s digital economy, as part of our project, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/digital-economy-womens-rights-wellbeing-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centering Women in India\u2019s Digitalizing Economy<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> (2020-24), a collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) supported by the European Commission. This project seeks to explore alternative platform enterprise models that can further the economic empowerment of women workers in the informal sector. We will engage with cooperatives, social enterprises, and collectives embarking on different platform solutions and models across different locations in India, using longitudinal action research to study their socio-economic journeys.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In 2020, we focused our energies on exploring what gender-inclusion means in emerging digital economies in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. This period saw a Big Tech takeover of logistics infrastructures in core value chains of agriculture, manufacturing and services, and the digitalization of welfare systems. We wrote a series of topical and timely op-eds highlighting the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fes-asia.org\/news\/digital-gender-divide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expulsion of marginalized women<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> from the post-pandemic digital future and the adverse implications of the Government of India\u2019s proclamation of e-commerce as an essential service. We <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/opinion\/covid-lockdown-exposes-gaping-holes-in-e-commerce-and-farm-food-supply-chains\/article31338288.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed how<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> such measures at the height of pandemic-related lockdowns do not account for the realities of marginal and small farmers and agricultural laborers in food value chains.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We joined a group of leading civil society organizations and the donor community to prepare an <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/add\/IT%20for%20Change%20-%20Recommendations%20to%20Niti%20Aayog%20on%20Gender%20and%20COVID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">input to NITI Aayog<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> on Covid-19 and its impact on women and girls. Our contribution highlighted how any strategy development by NITI Aayog for post-Covid economic recovery should focus on creating public digital infrastructure to support women\u2019s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperativist business models in different sectors, along with tackling the shadow pandemic of online abuse.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We also carried out a qualitative <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/1739\/The-Macro-Frames-of-Microwork-Full-Report-ITfC-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research study<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> on the impact of Covid-19 on the working conditions of women microworkers of the online digital labor platform, Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). The study revealed how algorithmic cultures in cross-border digital work reproduce gender hierarchies of discrimination and exploitation in global value chains. Findings from the study were also published as a research paper for the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epw.in\/journal\/2021\/17\/review-womens-studies\/macro-frames-microwork.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economic and Political Weekly<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> (EPW).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df52b3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"df52b3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #630363;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Addressing Sexist Hate and Misogyny in the Digitally-Mediated Public Sphere<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">With support from the International Development Research Centre (Canada), we continued our ongoing research and policy engagement on sexist hate and misogyny in the digitally-mediated public sphere. Our theoretical framing of sexist hate online as a violation of women\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/tech\/news-analysis\/public-participation-is-a-womans-first-order-claim-to-being-recognised-as-a-human-being-the-pandemic-cant-be-allowed-to-undermine-that-8419571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first-order claim<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> to public-political participation and continued <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botpopuli.net\/articulating-a-feminist-response-to-online-hate-speech-first-steps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explorations<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> of a feminist response to online hate speech pointed to the inadequacies of existing legal frameworks and jurisprudence in India on gender-based cyberviolence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Laws have been particularly slow in understanding the blurring of public and private interactions in digital sociality. We carried out a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/1738\/PAR-on-gender-based-hate-speech-online-with-a-Karnataka-based-youth-group.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participatory action research study<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> with 20 young women and men from marginal social locations across different geographies in rural Karnataka, associated with the community college programs of the Bengaluru-based NGO, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/samvadabaduku.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samvada<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. The research enabled the participant cohort to interrogate hegemonic masculinities and respond to the normalization of misogyny on social media platforms. We also initiated a new line of research on mapping the morphologies of hate speech against women in public-political life on Twitter in India to understand the interplay of gender ideologies, platformized political speech, and content governance rules of the platform.\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bdf41f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4bdf41f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gcollage.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gcollage.png 780w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gcollage-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/gcollage-768x443.png 768w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Media articles based on our research about sexist hatespeech online by Anita Gurumurthy and Bhavna Jha.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-605866f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"605866f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Our primary research explorations reveal the critical importance of two things: first, the need for a new feminist legal-policy approach to address sexist hate speech online rooted in women\u2019s right to equality; second, the non-negotiable imperative to build consensus around this among feminists. With support from the EdelGive Foundation, we brought out an essay series on <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/rethinking-legal-institutional-approaches-to-sexist-hate-speech-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rethinking Legal-Institutional Approaches to Sexist Hate Speech in India <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">with reflective thinkpieces from feminist activists\/digital rights community, lawyers, and scholars to tease out the nuts and bolts of platform accountability vis-\u00e0-vis hateful content. We also convened a series of three webinars on <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sexism-online-publics-it-for-change-edelgive-idrc-webinar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sexism and the Online Publics<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, which facilitated an in-depth, inter-generational conversation on the issue between the authors of our think-piece series and a wider public of civil society groups, research scholars, students, and independent activists.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We have submitted inputs from our ongoing research and civil society dialogues into critical policy conversations at the global and national level including the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/submission-to-special-rapporteur-on-rights-to-freedom-of-peaceful-assembly-and-of-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Association and Assembly<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/1738\/NCW-Submission-on-cyberviolence-Dec-2020-IT%20for-Change.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law review consultation on cybercrimes against women<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">convened by the National Commission for Women (India).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-137d404 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"137d404\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Feminist-Digital-Futures-podcast.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Feminist-Digital-Futures-podcast.png 780w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Feminist-Digital-Futures-podcast-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Feminist-Digital-Futures-podcast-768x443.png 768w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Harmeet Rahal for Feminist Digital Futures: A Bot Populi Podcast Series.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a648919 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a648919\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Breaking away from anachronistic framings of platforms as neutral conduits of content, we have argued the need for a new social media governance approach grounded in women\u2019s human rights. On the occasion of the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2021 (UN CSW 21), capitalizing on its focus on gender equality in public life, we published a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botpopuli.net\/a-feminist-social-media-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentary<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and released a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botpopuli.net\/feminist-digital-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast series<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> on a feminist social media future, curating the views of feminist digital rights activists from across the world on a new multilateral benchmarking exercise for content governance and techno-design of online communicative spaces. At the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/human-rights-impact-social-media-platforms-un-south-asia-forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, we initiated a dialogue with Facebook on the shortcomings of existing content moderation practices and community standards on the platform. We provided an <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/Gender%20Based%20Violence%20%26%20Tech%281%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expert input<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> on technology and gender-based violence at a learning webinar organized by UNDP and UNICEF.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29eddb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29eddb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">At the national level, we were invited to provide inputs on gender-based cyberviolence at a forum on <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArthanCareers\/videos\/vb.229074937569231\/692219311501804\/?type=2&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making Technology Gender Inclusive<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, co-organized by Breakthrough and Arthan. We were also invited by Facebook India to their national-level civil society advisory group to support the context-appropriate development and testing of pilot projects to tackle the pressing issue of non-consensual circulation of intimate images and gender-based hate<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53f38ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"53f38ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833-1024x719.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833-1536x1078.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dealwealwayswanted-covers-scaled-e1631788842833.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Covers for The Deal We Always Wanted: A Feminist Action Framework for the Digital Economy by Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami. Artwork by Ellery Studio.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c9f7df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c9f7df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><b>Promoting Feminist Digital Justice Narratives in Policy and Civil Society Dialogues<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As part of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.fes.de\/pdf-files\/iez\/17008-20210902.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FES Feminist Working Group on Feminist Visions of the Future of Work<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, we developed an action roadmap for multiscalar policy action to build gender-just digital economies. Similarly, as a member of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aplusalliance.org\/en\/pages\/network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feminist AI Research Network<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, we contributed unique perspectives to knowledge dialogues on exploring feminist AI. Our inputs focused on demonstrating how a narrow preoccupation with addressing bias and discrimination in the design of AI systems is by itself an inadequate strategy of <span style=\"color: #000000;\">feministizing AI.<\/span> We argued that identifying the gendered marginalities stemming from unequal distribution of the gains of intelligence in emerging global data value chains is the need of the hour.\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Our ongoing advocacy track on gender and digital trade was more focused this year on civil society capacity-building, and less with policy spaces, given the postponement of the WTO Ministerial Conference-12 from 2020 to 2021 on account of the pandemic. At webinars organized by the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/Global-Town-Hall-Macro-Solutions-Women-People-Planet-WWGonFFD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gender and Trade Coalition, the Women\u2019s Working Group on Financing for Development<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, and<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/FES-in-asia-wide-webinar-feminist-perspectives-digital-economy-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> FES Asia and WIDE+<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, we raised critical concerns about the gender implications of unregulated digitalization of global value chains during the pandemic, especially in light of the push for hyperliberalization of e-commerce by powerful states and transnational digital corporations. At the same time, we also focused on unpacking what it would mean for nation-states to pursue an alternative model of digital transformation focused on creating gender-just local economies and governance systems. Our team members were also invited by leading international civil society groups such as the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d8ZIOYmETPU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World March of Women<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/economies-through-data-southern-feminist-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">(DAWN), and Escuela de Economia Feminista to deliver <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/economies-through-data-southern-feminist-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">masterclasses <\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">to members of their constituencies on deploying a critical gender lens to unpack the digitalization of economy and society.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9f440e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f9f440e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Feminist Observatory of the Internet<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We received support from the Women\u2019s Rights Online network of the World Wide Web Foundation to build a dedicated go-to space for progressive and visionary feminist narratives on our co-founded online media space<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botpopuli.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bot Populi<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. The Feminist Digital Futures podcast series was also produced as part of this project. Between April 2020-March 2021, we published an impressive array of articles under the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botpopuli.net\/feminism-in-the-digital-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feminist Observatory of the Internet<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> track on Bot Populi, providing nuance to a range of debates on the digital economy and society from both in-house and external researchers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce76a9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ce76a9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-1024x591.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-1536x886.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bot-Populi-Graphics-2048x1182.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Artwork for  Memeing Democracy written by R Vaishno Bharati for the Feminist Observatory of the Internet.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b9a3c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8b9a3c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #630363;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><b>Impact<\/b><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 24px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We continue to be one of the few organizations in the digital rights domain that bring robust Southern feminist perspectives about the ongoing data-enabled transformation of democracy and economy to key multilateral spaces. We are humbled that in a year marked by huge constraints for face-to-face civil society meetings, we have been continuously approached by feminist activists and organizations in the Global South for strategic support in their analysis and action. A big feather in our cap was the expansion of the Feminist Digital Observatory track in Bot Populi. As part of this track, we commissioned several articles which have raked in nearly 6000 page views on the site, and produced the Feminist Digital Futures podcast series, which has been streamed over 1200 times across all platforms. Similarly, our dedicated track of advocacy on social media governance is slowly gaining traction, and is being noticed by critical organizations in the Generation Equality Action Coalitions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In our work at the national level, we have managed to move the bar on the debate on gender-based cyberviolence. We have pointed to why the false binary between free speech and regulation of sexism is not productive in the context of sexist trolling, and the online public sphere may need a sui generis legal approach that accounts for the unique role of the platform company in shaping rules for digital sociality. We are glad that we have been able to include feminists from different generations and across different ideological persuasions with respect to legal reform, in this conversation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ae3fc3 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-testimonial\" data-id=\"6ae3fc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"testimonial.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-content\"><i class=\"fa fa-quote-left fa-lg\"><\/i>IT for Change has been at the forefront of exceptional research in the context of gender justice in the digital space. Their research deep-dives into some of the most thorny issues that arise in understanding and addressing the gendered harms of digital spaces, while being mindful of the often competing freedoms and rights at play. Their body of work reflects their multi-disciplinary approach: it is philosophically and jurisprudentially rigorous, while also engaging with the practicalities of the regulatory landscape. What is particularly commendable is the passion and depth of knowledge that their team brings to the table, and their commitment towards pushing the envelope on the conversation on gender rights. Working with them has been one of the most enriching experiences of my career.<i class=\"fa fa-quote-right fa-lg\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-meta-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-name\">Arti Raghavan<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-testimonial-job\"> Advocate, Bombay High Court<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4d366f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4d366f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"color: #630363; font-size: 24px;\">Plans for 2021-22<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As part of the Centering Women in India\u2019s Digitalizing Economy project, we will initiate action research projects with women workers in the health and sanitation sector and women farmers\u2019 cooperatives to explore alternative platform enterprise models. This is an exciting new learning area for us and will involve measuring how platform design can be feminist \u2013 by promoting women\u2019s labor rights and economic well-being.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We propose to organize a global virtual conference on social media governance as part of our work on addressing sexism and misogyny in the digitally-mediated public sphere. Plans to build a toolkit for the judiciary on addressing gender-based cyber-violence are also in the pipeline.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In early 2021, we laid the ground to initiate a study on the feminist political economy of the global menstrual apps market supported by DAWN and Web Foundation, and a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itforchange.net\/towards-gender-just-public-information-system-design-BMGF-NRLM-ITfC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender evaluation<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> of the information and data architecture of the National Rural Livelihood Mission of the Government of India, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">We are also keen to step up our efforts to promote feminist digital narratives in global and national civil society circles, through an online institute targeting early career scholar-practitioners and setting up community labs to have meaningful and grounded dialogues on equitable platform and data-supported enterprise models.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The five-year support from Ford Foundation\u2019s BUILD program opens up a unique opportunity for us to think out-of-the-box, and deepen our forays into feminist digital justice. It also urges us to think more systematically about breaking the programming silos within the organization, and integrating feminist perspectives into all parts of our work. This is a challenge we are eager to take on.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender Justice in the Digital Society Gender justice in relation to technology is not a simplistic, depoliticized idea of access and inclusion. It is about transforming the potential of platform, data, and AI technologies; creating a society and economy that reflects a different set of values for the digital paradigm. Our research, policy engagement, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/2020-21-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gender&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":223,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annual-reports.itforchange.net\/Annual-Report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}