Femhack- Encryption and digital security workshop for cis, trans and queer women, Bangalore

Category	Gender and Tech +
End when	23 May 2015 +
Feedbacks	- interest in creating more safe spaces to … - interest in creating more safe spaces to discuss and learn: one repeated feedback was that for participants to truly open up, it helped (among other factors) to have a closed space for cis and trans women in creating a non-threatening, non-judgemental and empathetic space - among the participants were university students running gender and sexuality support groups, who were interested in making available anonymysing tools and having access to literature on feminist approaches to technology - explore having focused groups with different needs (eg. activists, students having small informal support groups, generally curious persons) perhaps gather on different days persons) perhaps gather on different days +
For whom is it organized	closed space for women (cis, trans, queer) activists, artists and students +
How many people trained	10 +
KEEP	having many more cozy gatherings of women learn from each other :) +
Links about the activity	Articles, videos, photos on-line, ... +
Motivations for organizing training	To have a safe and closed space for women … To have a safe and closed space for women to discuss and address insecurities around computers and technology, being able to share useful secure communication practices and tools to organize around LGBTQ issues and use these tools strategically. Also to recognize that engagement with technology is political feminist issue and to gauge interest and capacity for events like this. nterest and capacity for events like this. +
Number of hours	8 +
START	- spread the call wider and earlier, make better use of networks - follow up support so that it is not an isolated event but something participants can dig deeper into +
STOP	being apprehensive about how the event will be received! +
Start when	23 May 2015 +
Title of the activity	femhack- encryption and digital security workshop for women +
Topics addressed	feminist digital spaces, feminist approaches to technology, importance of privacy and digital security in lgbtq organizing +
Where is located the activity	Bangalore, Karnataka +
Who organize it	nayantara +
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Modification date This property is a special property in this wiki.	30 June 2015 06:59:22 +

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