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Join our online workshop at #GDDF2024 and find out how the Women's Rights Online network is making strides in combatting #OGBV. 📅 12 June 2024 ⏰ 2.30-3.30pm (ET) 6.30pm-7.30pm (UTC) 📝 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… @PollicyOrg @TEDICpy @hiperderecho @TechSocietal
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Tomorrow: We host two workshops on our ongoing work on #TFGBV an analysis of findings on Perpetrator Data and needed research roadmap, and testing our gendered and data privacy framework to evaluate tech products. Join online or in-person at #CSW68 forms.gle/f3qGNZoyeQrfKwTa9

Registration: Tech Policy Design Lab Workshop Perpetrator Research and Evaluation Framework

When: Thursday 14 March 2024 9am to 12 noon (attendees to arrive at 8.30) Where: Scandinavia House. 58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016 During the first workshop of the day, we will build a Roadmap for...

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The founding principles of the web are creativity, collaboration and compassion. On this 35th anniversary read our co-founder @timberners_lee's assessment of his invention, and join us to continue to build the future of the web. medium.com/@timberners_lee/m…

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday.

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Happy birthday to the World Wide Web! MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee’s invention was initially described by his CERN supervisor as “vague but exciting”: bit.ly/2EXaniz (v/@timberners_lee & @webfoundation, image courtesy of Sotheby’s)
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Marking the Web’s 35th birthday: An Open Letter from @timberners_lee addressing the erosion of the web’s core values and the resulting power imbalances influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts: medium.com/@timberners_lee/m…

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday.

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Dr. Carolina Are is a content moderation expert and creator working on social media platforms’ governance of nudity, sex, and LGBTQIA expression, and ran a Technology Policy Design Lab to counter malicious flagging: techlab.webfoundation.org/bl… @bloggeronpole @sprblm_
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Online gender-based violence can be prevented and countered. Using a collaborative design approach, we have already drafted some potential solutions. Learn more about the inaugural Tech Policy Design Lab here. #OGBV techlab.webfoundation.org/og…
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Across the globe, organizations are collecting evidence to call for change and get tech to think differently about online gender-based violence. With input from across the globe, what is the real picture? #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/ca…
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8 Mar 2023
In all regions of the world, amendments are being made and new laws are being developed to address online gender-based violence. Find out what governments are doing across the globe. #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/ca…
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10 Mar 2023
Big tech companies might be the focus when it comes to addressing online gender-based violence— but many small pioneering companies put safety at the centre. #OGBV #TFGBV #TFVAW techlab.webfoundation.org/ca… #CSW67
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Our event is starting. Policy director @DiploKat is describing the some of the background of our involvement with gender equality as it relates to the web. “We see gender inequality as an existential problem for the web”. #ogbv #CSW67
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Along with definitions we need to discuss the ways we source the data, the ways it is collected and the biases that are in it. We need to start there, before we even start using the data and establishing definitions with #OGBV. - Paula Martins @APC_News
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The definition of #OGBV includes all #ict-related abuse and violence, against women in all their diversity, including trans and gender non-conforming people. But if we get lost in definitions we will never get to addressing the harms. - Erika Smith, @APC_News
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Join us either online or in person tomorrow (Friday) to discuss how data, policies and tools can be used to tackle #OGBV. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #ogbv #CSW67
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