Session Two | Oct 8
SESSION TITLE
Our gendered experiences in policy spaces, challenges and needs.
The spaces we wish to create.
ABOUT THE SESSION
This session is oriented to share the essential pillars of a gender perspective for policy making; the feminist principles in ICT policy and to learn from sharing stories of our gendered experiences in policy spaces have been so far and why and how they need to change where the gender lens is absent. We will also address and share good practices and methodologies for feminist and gendered policy design.
SESSION PLAN
PART I
Introduction
* What is gender perspective?
* What is a gendered policy and a feminist ICT policy?
Story telling of your own: gendered experiences in policy spaces.
PART II
Why do we need to change non-inclusive, non gendered policies made with a “white male only” perspective?
Principles of a gendered perspective
Methodoligies for a gender perspective policy making
Good practices in gendered ICT policies.
ABOUT THE MENTORS
Adriana Labardini Inzunza
Adriana Labardini Inzunza obtained her law degree cum laude from Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City in 1987 and her master’s degree (LLM) from Columbia University in New York, on a Fulbright scholar in 1991. For four and a half years she served as Commissioner at the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), the Mexican independent regulatory body and competition authority for telecommunications and broadcasting industries. Currently an independent public interest lawyer and consumer rights expert, is collaborating with Rhizomatica promoting and advocating for sustainable, self-managed community networks to bridge the digital divide, promote rural and indigenous connectivity and media. She is also a founder of Conectadas a network of women in the ICT industries working for gender equality in Mexico.
Marwa Azelmat
Marwa offers extensive experience in policy advocacy work related to cyber policy issues, gendered policy making and good governance. Marwa’s journey has been captured in the UN-AU Commemorative Book on UNSCR 1325, titled “20 Years 20 Stories”, as one of 20 African women who have made an outstanding contribution in their fields to the broader Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Her story among others echoes outspoken activism challenging the way it has always been done and positioning internet rights as accelerators of the SDG 16. Throughout her work, Marwa has been rethinking social justice in a digital age wherein institutional development needs to unleash gendered technology for effective policy measures and accountability practices. Marwa holds a Masters of Laws-LLM in International Human Rights Law and Democratization, an IT engineering degree and a professional certificate on Conflict Prevention and Resolution through Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at Vienna. Marwa loves journaling, running by the sea and meditating to break free of life’s mundane shackles.