awid2008

In 2008, the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) brought together more than 100 advocates and activists from Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America working on women’s rights, feminism and communication rights, to collectively build our knowledge and capacity on how information and communications technologies connect with feminism. The FTX offered five simultaneous training tracks focused on using the internet and social networking for activism via video, podcasts, mobile technology, digital storytelling.

28 hours away from South Africa, back to my little room and super hectic city, Jakarta. I know all the tracks in FTX is really important. But beyond that, the feeling of knowing each other and understand what is really happen outside my country is the most valuable lesson that I ever achieve. The spirit of all participants are amazing.

AWID Forum, 14th to 17th Nov 2008 – Testing times? Maximising commonality and minmising conflict within and between movements

There’s a difference between privacy and confidentiality. If the blood test results show that someone is HIV positive or has AIDS, there’s a confidentiality about the results, but it doesn’t mean that the results would be private…