INTRODUCTION and INSTRUCTIONS
Best Practice Forum Gender and Access has functioned in a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder, and community-driven manner to gather stories, experiences, and lessons for producing this pre-IGF Output Document draft. Drawing on the same process, BPF Gender invites all interested to comment and contribute in its draft outputs.
General comments as well as comments on specific parts of the report are welcome. In the later case, please indicate clearly what section, page or paragraph of the text your comment relates to.
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Received public feedback will be taken into account in the final version of the BPF Gender output, which will be published shortly after the IGF meeting.
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Comments
The BPF Gender pre IGF output
The BPF Gender pre IGF output is an enlightening document, which sheds a lot of light on the types of community connectivity models.
My understanding from reading through is that responses to the survey were not collected directly from the underserved communities of women. Rather they were gathered from 'intermediaries' - people working with the said communities.
While I recognize that the underserved communities of women, who are the focus of this document, may not possess the technical knowledge to answer some of the questions, this approach presents the opportunity for misrepresenting some of the women's experiences and perspectives by the respondents and not fully getting to the heart of their engagement with various types of Internet access. There is also the opportunity for any degree of unconscious bias to colour how the intermediaries view the women's use or lack of the community networks.
The BPF Gender pre IGF output
The BPF Gender pre IGF output is an enlightening document, which sheds a lot of light on the types of community connectivity models.
My understanding from reading through is that responses to the survey were not collected directly from the underserved communities of women. Rather they were gathered from 'intermediaries' - people working with the said communities.
While I recognize that the underserved communities of women, who are the focus of this document, may not possess the technical knowledge to answer some of the questions, this approach presents the opportunity for misrepresenting some of the women's experiences and perspectives by the respondents and not fully getting to the heart of their engagement with various types of Internet access. There is also the opportunity for any degree of unconscious bias to colour how the intermediaries view the women's use or lack of the community networks.