gender and technology

As Beijing+30 prompts reflection on progress toward gender equality, APC marks 30 years of shaping a feminist internet. Since its founding in 1990 and pivotal role in drafting Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action, APC has worked to ensure women and gender-diverse people can co-create digital technologies that reflect their realities. Through advocacy, movement building, and inclusion…

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, women human rights defenders in Mesoamerica face escalating digital violence that mirrors and amplifies offline repression. Research by IM-Defensoras reveals thousands of online attacks led by states, corporations, and fundamentalist groups. These digital assaults are not incidental but structural tools of silencing and control that highlight the…

As Beijing+30 approaches, LGBTQIA+ and marginalised women in East Africa remain excluded from the agenda’s promise of equality. Punitive laws, stigma, and violence deepen invisibility, while limited digital access compounds isolation. This article reflects on persistent gaps in the Beijing Platform for Action, exposing its cis-heteronormative blind spots and failure to address tech-facilitated…

As AI continues to evolve at speed, concerns around its embedded biases and systemic harms raise urgent questions for the future of gender justice, human rights, and the broader vision of a feminist internet. In the face of its growing inevitability, it becomes necessary to ask whether a truly feminist AI is possible, and in what conditions. Hija Kamran writes.

This article contains key takeaways and summaries of the discussions and talks about AI-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV) that happened during the sessions at the Open Tech Camp and Rightscon in February 2025. Reported by Rohini Lakshane.

With an increasing commercialisation of AI-based apps and tools, the existing inequalities and tech facilitated violence have found another avenue to perpetuate in the digital spaces. In this article, Rohini Lakshane argues the need for robust solutions focused on protection and guarantee of rights of those affected by this violence.

As South Asian LGBTQIA+ folk navigate already unsafe and uncertain societies, digital spaces have increasingly become equally risky with the corporate greed that profits off their data at the expense of their already at-risk privacy. Debarati Das argues that this type of digital colonialism has far-reaching implications on the queer communities in the region.

Telegram is widely known for its lack of privacy-by-design and disregard for users' safety. Yet, in India, LGBTQIA+ communities are using it to seek connections when mainstream platforms and deeply violent society continue to fail them.

GenderIT is accepting pitches from India around gendered disinformation and how it impacts people living with intersecting vulnerable identities. Deadline to submit is Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Generative AI has commercialised deepfake apps that are "nudifying" people without their consent. These apps boast about their ease of use, but the worrying aspect is the believability of the content being produced by these apps and the resulting impact. Anmol Irfan examines whether there's a future with this technology where women and gender diverse people are safe?