Feminist Talk

A big hangar, with an eternal noise that ask people to wear headphones and talk to each other in the same rooms trough microphones, an internetⁱ network that do not allow all participants to be simultaneous online, with an average on 1 person out of three full online and the other struggling with their different devices to reach out, comment and communicate what is happening and what should not happened.

This is my first IGF, I have snicked in the premises of Internet Governanceⁱ during the WSIS at that time I have decided to retire and be a distant witness. This year I am here, listening, learning, observing and exercising my right to express my visions, my active feminist citizenship, which occurred to be censored today (7th Nov.) in the workshop 89 room 8 “aggressively moderate” by mr (?) Robert Guerra.

This webinar will examine the idea of the feminist cyborg. The feminist cyborg is at home both online and offline, and her activism is reflected in her online life (whether it is through blogⁱs, tweets and general online presence) as well as in what she does offline (working for a feminist organization, working with women’s rights organizations and social justice movements, or in progressive media).

This is the transcription of Valentina Pellizzer 's speech at the closing ceremony of the 7th Internet Governance Forum ⁱ(IGF), which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6th to 7th November, 2012

On 10 November, the page of The Uprising of Women in the Arab World posted that Dana, the Syrian woman whose photo was censored by Facebook, was restored after a call for support against Facebook censorship of her photo.

This is the transcript of the Access and Diversity Main Session that took place on November 8 2012 at the Internet Governance Forum ⁱin Baku, Azerbaijan. It was the first time in the entire history of the IGF that women and gender ⁱissues were addressed in a main session, with the presence of Jac sm Kee from APC Women´s Rights Programme.

Nighat Dad from Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan speaks to Arzu Geybullayeva, a regional analyst and a blogger from Azerbaijan. Arzu’s areas of interest are regional politics, conflict resolution, and new social media. In their “feminist talk” Nighat ask Arzu about her impressions of 7th Internet Governance Forum, that took place in Baku, and key internet rights issues faced by women in Azerbaijan.

Attending the IGF for the first time came with no expectations, however it is difficult to ignore the usual disparity that I face everyday in Egypt, and in many other countries when I travel. No one can say that the number of women participating in the IGF 2012 is low, in fact women are very much present representing the different stakeholders; government