social movements

FSCONS: Free software Examples from the Women Social Movements

My first presentation at FSCONS, taking place tomorrow from 15h15 has this crypted title "NGO Women". It is part of the Serengeti track on social movement examples on Free Software appropriation.

So, in brief, I am going to give several examples on how feminist movements around the world use free software as their approach to software and Internet technology: ways of appropriation, challenges, strategies. Some of the projects took place in Eastern Europe like the Women's Information Technologies Transfer, a network of ICT trainers for the women's movements, which bases its principles on open platform and freedom of technology. Others are taken from France, Canada and other parts of the world.

I will also like to discuss a statement, which I hear more and more often on feminist forums, that "There is nothing more feminist on the Internet than the Free Software". This is in similarity to another, more global view that Free Software movements and solidarity movements, in general, often have a common agenda.

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