Take back the tech!

A call to everyone - especially grrls and women - to take control of ICTs and use it to change power relations between men and women.
For 16 Days (Nov 25 – Dec 10), enabling the use of ICTs for activism against VAW.

Reclaiming women’'s critical participation and contribution to ICTs (e.g. Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper..)
Echoing the "Take Back The Night" campaign
Online Spaces – Our right to move freely, without harassment or threats to safety
Right to Shape, Define, Participate, Use, Share everything related to ICTs.

Ordinary ICTs users - grrl, woman, female, boy, male, man and any other!
ICTs developers, information provider & disseminator, content creators, knowledge builders..

Basically anyone who from librarians, lecturers, writers, techies, geek grrls, bloggers, emailers, SMSers, trainers, storytellers, poets, writers, web managers, theorists, graffiti artists, photographers…………

To build knowledge on how ICTs is connected to VAW.
To provide simple strategies on how incidences of VAW can be minimised online.
To generate a discourse around the connections between ICTs and VAW in online and offline spaces.
To build a community that will continue to strategise around eliminating VAW through, and in ICTs spaces