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Feminist Digital Justice (FDJ)

Feminist Digital Justice is a collaborative research and advocacy initiative of DAWN and IT for Change. It focuses on reinterpreting the emerging techno-social paradigm from a Southern feminist standpoint.

We connect feminist concerns about gender justice and emerging issues on the digital frontier, to develop, support and strengthen informed and cutting edge feminist analysis and action. We work in collaboration with other feminist, women’s groups and development actors.

Feminist Digital Justice responds to the urgent need for Southern visions of transformative change in these times of paradigmatic shift, exhorting feminists from the South to engage with the political economy of data and use their knowledge and wisdom to frame debates.

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice, and Global South perspective. It covers and reports on the ways in which the digital world affects different aspects of our lives, in obvious as well as in unexpected ways.

IT for Change is a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit organisation engaged in research, policy advocacy and field practice at the intersections of digital technologies and social change, with a specific focus on social justice and gender equality.

DAWN’s collaboration with ITFC for Bot Populi

The Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice

DAWN and IT for Change launched the much-awaited Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice. The Declaration was born out of a collaboration between 36 feminist scholars and activists worldwide and outlined the issues of a new gender-just digital compact to address intersectional exclusion and exploitation in the platform public, the digital welfare state, and the data & AI economy.

The global communications agora and emerging metaverse technologies must be reclaimed from the jaws of surveillance capitalism.

Declaration on Feminist Digital Justice

Towards a Feminist Digital Justice Vision: Issue Mapping of Critical Considerations

The Working Group on Feminist Digital Justice was co-convened by Development Alternatives with Womenfor a New Era (DAWN) and IT for Change as part of Just Net Coalition’s ‘Digital Justice’ initiative. The Working Group met over 2021-22 to co-develop this Background Paper and frame The Declaration of Feminist Digital Justice.

The commodification of feminism and the appropriation of feminist discourses by Big Tech needs to be challenged by reclaiming the internet’s communication commons.

Working Group on FDJ

Issue Papers

A series of issue papers that traces the contours of a feminist development agenda for the digital economy.

Diversifying Strategies for Feminist Digital Activism in the Global South
Diversifying Strategies for Feminist Digital Activism in the Global South
January 31, 2022 / Article
Data Subjects in the Femtech Matrix: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of the Global Menstruapps Market
Data Subjects in the Femtech Matrix: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of the Global Menstruapps Market
December 21, 2021 / Article
Growing e-Commerce and Diminishing Labor Rights: Platform Work in Argentina
Growing e-Commerce and Diminishing Labor Rights: Platform Work in Argentina
April 6, 2021 / Article
Can Digital Justice Meet Social Justice?
Can Digital Justice Meet Social Justice?
March 1, 2021 / Article
From ill-founded delusions to real possibilities: An e-commerce agenda for women’s empowerment
From ill-founded delusions to real possibilities: An e-commerce agenda for women’s empowerment
July 6, 2020 / Article
A feminist future of work in the post-pandemic moment
A feminist future of work in the post-pandemic moment
May 14, 2020 / Article
Gender Equality in the Digital Economy: Emerging Issues
Gender Equality in the Digital Economy: Emerging Issues
October 4, 2018 / Article
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Towards Feminist Digital Justice  

In this issue, we delve into the profound impact of digitalisation on women and LGBTI+ rights in the global South. Beyond navigating the challenges of a digitally mediated world, we’re also setting the stage for activism that supports the feminist digital justice agenda.

It is urgent that our struggles for liberation reclaim the digital realm

 Agustina Calcagno

Feminist Challenges on a Digital World

Feminist authors from across the global South raise critical questions about data sovereignty, digital security, data privacy and protection. These reflections give us new clues and open up new pathways to continue imagining a feminist future in the digital justice world.

For an increasing number of Pacific Islanders, mobile phones are a means to overcome demographic, geographic and economic challenges.

Sala Weleilakeba