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Join our online workshop at #GDDF2024 and find out how the Women's Rights Online network is making strides in combatting #OGBV.
📅 12 June 2024
⏰ 2.30-3.30pm (ET) 6.30pm-7.30pm (UTC)
📝 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Tomorrow: We host two workshops on our ongoing work on #TFGBV an analysis of findings on Perpetrator Data and needed research roadmap, and testing our gendered and data privacy framework to evaluate tech products. Join online or in-person at #CSW68 forms.gle/f3qGNZoyeQrfKwTa9
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The founding principles of the web are creativity, collaboration and compassion. On this 35th anniversary read our co-founder @timberners_lee's assessment of his invention, and join us to continue to build the future of the web. medium.com/@timberners_lee/m…
Happy birthday to the World Wide Web!
MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee’s invention was initially described by his CERN supervisor as “vague but exciting”: bit.ly/2EXaniz
(v/@timberners_lee & @webfoundation, image courtesy of Sotheby’s)
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Marking the Web’s 35th birthday: An Open Letter
from @timberners_lee addressing the erosion of the web’s core values and the resulting power imbalances influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts:
medium.com/@timberners_lee/m…
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Dr. Carolina Are is a content moderation expert and creator working on social media platforms’ governance of nudity, sex, and LGBTQIA+ expression, and ran a Technology Policy Design Lab to counter malicious flagging: techlab.webfoundation.org/bl… @bloggeronpole @sprblm_
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Online gender-based violence can be prevented and countered. Using a collaborative design approach, we have already drafted some potential solutions. Learn more about the inaugural Tech Policy Design Lab here. #OGBV techlab.webfoundation.org/og…
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World Wide Web Foundation retweeted
Across the globe, organizations are collecting evidence to call for change and get tech to think differently about online gender-based violence. With input from across the globe, what is the real picture? #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/ca…
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World Wide Web Foundation retweeted
In all regions of the world, amendments are being made and new laws are being developed to address online gender-based violence. Find out what governments are doing across the globe. #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/ca…
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World Wide Web Foundation retweeted
Big tech companies might be the focus when it comes to addressing online gender-based violence— but many small pioneering companies put safety at the centre. #OGBV #TFGBV #TFVAW techlab.webfoundation.org/ca… #CSW67
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Starting soon:
Join us either online or in person tomorrow (Friday) to discuss how data, policies and tools can be used to tackle #OGBV. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
#ogbv #CSW67
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