Gender and Development ICT Launch: Feminists Doing Digital

The digital revolution is transforming how human beings live, work, and relate to each another. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have vast potential to communicate, gain access to information and services, and catalyse collective action for social justice. But there is also the risk this revolution will fail to challenge stark inequalities in terms of who benefits and whose voice is heard. And technologies can be used by those who seek to challenge rights as well as realise them. Join us for the launch event of the new issue of Gender & Development which focuses on Information Communication Technologies from the perspective of women’s rights and gender justice.

Opening remarks: Caroline Sweetman - Editor, 'Gender & Development'

Panelists:

• Caroline Sweetman - Editor, 'Gender & Development'
• Shannon Philip - Department of International Development, University of Oxford: Youth and ICTs in a 'new' India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women
• Ronda Zelezny-Green - Royal Holloway, University of London: 'Now I want to use it to earn more': using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya
• Amy O'Donnell - Senior advisor on ICTs, Oxfam/Trustee, Hollaback!