World Wide Web Foundation

Join our online workshop at #GDDF2024 and find out how the Women's Rights Online network is making strides in combatting #OGBV. 📅 12 June 2024 ⏰ 2.30-3.30pm (ET) 6.30pm-7.30pm (UTC) 📝 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… @PollicyOrg @TEDICpy @hiperderecho @TechSocietal

Tomorrow: We host two workshops on our ongoing work on #TFGBV an analysis of findings on Perpetrator Data and needed research roadmap, and testing our gendered and data privacy framework to evaluate tech products. Join online or in-person at #CSW68 forms.gle/f3qGNZoyeQrfKw…

The founding principles of the web are creativity, collaboration and compassion. On this 35th anniversary read our co-founder @timberners_lee's assessment of his invention, and join us to continue to build the future of the web. @timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@timberners_le…

Marking the Web’s 35th birthday: An Open Letter from @timberners_lee addressing the erosion of the web’s core values and the resulting power imbalances influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts: @timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@timberners_le…

Dr. Carolina Are is a content moderation expert and creator working on social media platforms’ governance of nudity, sex, and LGBTQIA+ expression, and ran a Technology Policy Design Lab to counter malicious flagging: techlab.webfoundation.org/blog/malicious… @bloggeronpole @sprblm_

Online gender-based violence can be prevented and countered. Using a collaborative design approach, we have already drafted some potential solutions. Learn more about the inaugural Tech Policy Design Lab here. #OGBV techlab.webfoundation.org/ogbv/prototypes

Across the globe, organizations are collecting evidence to call for change and get tech to think differently about online gender-based violence. With input from across the globe, what is the real picture? #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/case-studies/d…

In all regions of the world, amendments are being made and new laws are being developed to address online gender-based violence. Find out what governments are doing across the globe. #OGBV #CSW67 techlab.webfoundation.org/case-studies/g…

Big tech companies might be the focus when it comes to addressing online gender-based violence— but many small pioneering companies put safety at the centre. #OGBV #TFGBV #TFVAW techlab.webfoundation.org/case-studies/t… #CSW67

The definition of #OGBV includes all #ict-related abuse and violence, against women in all their diversity, including trans and gender non-conforming people. But if we get lost in definitions we will never get to addressing the harms. - Erika Smith, @APC_News

Along with definitions we need to discuss the ways we source the data, the ways it is collected and the biases that are in it. We need to start there, before we even start using the data and establishing definitions with #OGBV. - Paula Martins @APC_News

Our event is starting. Policy director @DiploKat is describing the some of the background of our involvement with gender equality as it relates to the web. “We see gender inequality as an existential problem for the web”. #ogbv #CSW67

Starting soon: