Session Two | Oct 15

SESSION TITLE

Infrastructure is not gender neutral: Who, how and why we need to be involved in the conception and design?

 

ABOUT THE SESSION

Why should we lead conversations on infrastructure? Who is leading the design of the technologies that are used in CNs and in the digital spaces? How can we hack the space of decision-making?

 

ABOUT THE MENTORS

Loreto Bravo

Founder of the Radio Word 2006, Loreto Bravo has spent the last eight years of her life accompanying processes of community communication and teaching workshops on technical aspects in FM radio. In 2009 she participated in the campaign to reform low power FM in the United States with the Prometheus Radio Project. Loreto is passionate about using technology to defend human rights and eradicate violence against women.

 

Erika Smith

Originally from the US, Erika has lived in Mexico for over two decades. She has been training women in Mexico on the use of computers and the internet since 1991, and has been a member of the APC Women's Rights Programme since 1994. Her educational background is in Latin American studies and women’s social movements. She is also on the board of the interpreter and translator collective Tlatolli Ollin/Words in Movement, dedicated to providing quality translation and interpretation on social justice issues. A part of WRP, Erika is responsible for the implementation of the Womanity Award for Gender and ICT to end violence against women / Take Back the Tech! Mexico, and integrates the capacity building strategy group within WRP.