Session Fourteen | Oct 20
SESSION TITLE
Innovation in tech led by communities preserving heritage, creating difference
About the Mentors
Bruna Zanolli
Bruna Zanolli is a hands-on researcher in the areas of community networks and digital care. For over 10 years she has been active in free/community radios and networks and women's rights movements. She is interested in how feminist, anti-racist decolonial thinking and popular education can be used as tools to close the access gaps in their multiple layers.
She holds a master's degree in Communication from MediaLab UFRJ and is a member of the FIRN (Feminist Internet Research Network), of the APC women's program. She is also a member of the Transfeminist Digital Care Network, a network focused on diversifying the voices, faces and methodologies of digital practices and care.
She is currently co-coordinator of Innovation, Technology and Sustainability at Rhizomatica, Locnet project.
Lilian Chamorro Rojas
Lilian has a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering, a postgraduate degree in engineering project management and is finishing a master in strategies and technologies for development. Since 2004, she has been working first with Colnodo in Colombia and now with Redes AC in Mexico, in researching, implementing and managing ICT for development projects related to community networks, gender, education and e-government, among others.
She has participated with APC's Women's Rights Programme in different activities and events discussing and promoting the participation of women in technology.
Currently she has been accompanying different communities in ICT projects, working with community leaders on the building of their own community networks and exploring sustainability strategies.
Lilian also works with different funders, allies and universities developing activities related to project implementation, technical issues, capacity building, and social, financial and legal sustainability, aimed at the consolidation of a conducive ecosystem for community networks in Colombia.
ABOUT THE SESSION
In this session you can expect to leave the room with the below takeaways:
- importance of innovating tech
- women and queer and gender diverse people representation in tech spaces
- meaningful tech and CNs
- tech knowledge and influence on policy