Session Two | Nov 19

SESSION TITLE

Knowledge keeping, knowledge transfer, digital skills and continuity in the community.

 

ABOUT THE SESSION

This will be an interactive session where Tigist and Mariana will be speaking about their experiences in various feminist spaces of knowledge production and preservation. The session invites participants to reflect about the knowledge that is produced and kept in communities offline and online and the importance of feminist practices to ensure community knowledge sustainability.

 

ABOUT THE MENTORS

Mariana Fossati Cabrera

Mariana is a researcher, teacher and activist on feminism, free culture and human rights in digital environments. Her background is in sociology and she has a master's degree in Society and Development. She co-founded the digital cultural centre Ártica in 2011, and co-founded the Uruguayan chapters of Creative Commons and Wikimedia in 2013. In addition, Mariana has worked with numerous other projects, such as the Uruguayan study group Laboratorio Datos y Sociedad (Datysoc), and the online campaign #VisibleWikiWomen with the Whose Knowledge? initiative. She has trained feminist activists on technopolitics, online privacy, security and digital culture. As an activist, she has gathered experience in advocacy, public policy analysis, and parliamentary lobbying. Mariana is also a visual artist focused on collage and remix culture. She lives in Uruguay.

 

Tigist Shawerga Hussen

Tigist is an Ethiopian citizen. Currently she lives in South Africa. She specialises in research on gender and ICTs, feminist digital activism and movement building, and feminist digital research methods and ethics.