*Take Back The Tech* *http://www.takebackthetech.net/ * Take Back The Tech: an action of collaborative campaign to reclaim information & communications technologies (ICTs) to end violence against women (VAW). This is a call to everyone - especially girls and women - to take control of ICTs and consciously use it to change power relations between men and women. This call is for 16 Days (Nov 25 – Dec 10), to enable users to employ ICTs for activism against VAW. *What are the goals of this action?* · Build knowledge on how VAW is connected with ICTs, based on diverse experiences and realities. · Support and promote local actions, priorities and advocacy issues on VAW & ICTs in different spaces and contexts. · Collaboratively create strategies on using ICTs tactically to counter VAW. · Changing the landscape, potential & paradigm of ICTs through active participation. · To facilitate movement building on the human rights of women in relation to the field of ICTs.
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