ICTs can be potentially used to foster wider political participation. Look here for inspiration and examples of how women around the world used ICTs to change their societies.
Gabrielle Bardall is an academic and an electoral assistance expert with a decade of experience supporting electoral processes in transitional states. She has worked in more than 25 countries with international organizations including UNDP, UN Women, DPKO, IFES, DRI, Carter Center and others.
In the U.S., the term “hashtag activism” is usually uttered with a kind of derisive sneer, the implication being that social media can’t be used to effect any kind of “real” change.
In the U.S., the term “hashtag activism” is usually uttered with a kind of derisive sneer, the implication being that social media can’t be used to effect any kind of “real” change.
As a 22-year-old still living at home with her family in Chicago, college student Ala’a Basatneh doesn’t seem like a typical revolutionary.
The rising influence of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has paralleled the rapid development of women’s political participation worldwide.
The rising influence of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has paralleled the rapid development of women’s political participation worldwide.
You cannot wait for the people to come to parliament; you need to go where the people are. Today, the people are on social media.
You cannot wait for the people to come to parliament; you need to go where the people are. Today, the people are on social media.
In this discussion we would like to hear from you whether you have ever faced online harassment and share good practices or laws which were effective in curbing online harassment.
In this discussion we would like to hear from you whether you have ever faced online harassment and share good practices or laws which were effective in curbing online harassment.
These new training materials take best practices and approaches from NDI's work around the world and make them into a set of tools to increase the quality of training programs for women as voters, advocates, elections officials, political party members, candidates and office holders.
These new training materials take best practices and approaches from NDI's work around the world and make them into a set of tools to increase the quality of training programs for women as voters, advocates, elections officials, political party members, candidates and office holders.