IGF 2019 Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance Main Ses

The Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance (DC GIG) works towards integrating gender into the internet governance space and bring in the diverse perspectives of women and queer and trans persons. A session dedicated to the DC GIG, the intersection of gender and internet governance is crucial to the larger conversation on digital inclusion.

This year, the DC GIG session will be used as a space for knowledge-sharing and learning on body, data, and gender. This will directly tie in to the priority themes of the 2019 IGF; Data Governance, Digital Inclusion, and Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience.

Dr. Anja Kovacs from the Internet Democracy Project will be presenting some very exciting research on body and data, on how the meaning of body is expanding and being reconfigured with respect to data, and the fluidity between the two in the current digital age at the DC GIG session. There will be three discussants who will engage with the research and bring in their perspectives as members of different DCs as well as academics working on internet, gender, digital politics and policy.

This session will be live tweeted so that the learnings from the session are also publicly captured and available. This would be a more accessible way to take the conversation forward, both immediately as well as on a longer run.