The Best Practice Forum on Gender and Digital Rights intends to explore the concept of gendered disinformation. As the phenomenon of disinformation advances, it gains nuances and levels of complexity. In the current context, it is timely to explore the concept of gendered disinformation, its relation with online gender-based violence and hate speech, as well as its immediate effects on women and gender-diverse groups’ existence online and their freedom of expression. |
Envisaged goals and deliverables:
Participate Help buidling a 'gendered disinformation resource list' The BPF is compiling a resource list to provide easy access to cornerstone documents and reading materials on the topic of gendered disinformation, intended as background for the BPF discussions and as a community resource on gendered disinformation. The resource list is a living document (current version available here). Help us building this resource by suggesting research and reading materials via this form or to [email protected] . Next meeting BPF Virtual meeting VII, 14 October, 13:00 UTC, registration BPF Update to the IGF Open Consultations and MAG meeting, 29 Sept (slide deck) Report on the BPF's Learning sessions Between May and August 2021, the BPF organised a series of learning sessions with experts and stakeholders to explore the concept of gendered disinformation. This report provides a summary to serve as background for the BPF’s work in the second half of the year. |
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Past meetings & updates
Participation in the work of the BPF Gender and Digital Rights is free and open to all interested. Participants are expected to respect the IGF Code of Conduct . Stakeholders interested in contributing to the work of this BPF are invited to join the dedicated mailing list. Subscriptions can be done via the link below:
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Since its beginning in 2015, a Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Gender and Access has focused on different aspects of women’s meaningful access to the Internet: online abuse and gender-based violence (2015); barriers for accessing the Internet (2016); identification of the needs and challenges of diverse women’s groups with respect to Internet access (2017); the impact of supplementary models of connectivity on women’s Internet access (2018) were the topics addressed by the community; and opportunities and challenges that women face to get the necessary skills to benefit from the future of work. During these years, the BPF Gender has worked in a bottom-up process that allowed to collect, from diverse stakeholders, valuable data and anecdotal evidence of the challenges that formed the digital gender gap.
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