Manuals with a gender perspective

This HowTo focuses on one hand in criteria we should take into account when drafting manuals about privacy and digital security from a gender perspective. On the other hand it aims at listing collectives and organisations working on the production of manuals and to list available ones.

Before producing a new manual some questions you should ask yourself

• Don't reinvent the wheelǃ Are you duplicating upstream work?
• If a similar manual is already availableː Who's behind it? Is it a long-term project or a one shot one? Can you continue or complement their work?
• Who's the public & what are the objectives ? What are their security & technical levels?
• Will your manual will be more about tools and how to configure those, or will it be more about threat modeling and/or behavioral processes?
• Under which license will you distribute it and which rights will you grant third parties (access, use, copy, remix, etc)?
• How will you maintain it? This encompass questions about frequency of updates needs depending of the tools and processes you will detail, and about processes you will run to engage your community in updating contents with you.
• How will you get feedback and peer review from readers? Will you be able to include all the feed back? (Some criteria will deal withː correctness, completeness, up to date). Remember to always indicate the last date the manual has been updated/released.
• How will you achieve or not translation & translatability of your manual? Which type of platforms will you use for achieving the translation? Will you achieve also cultural translation for instance?
• Will you provide further support to the readers such as a contact mail or a hotline?
• How will you ensure that your contents are ethical, inclusive and trans-queer-feminist "approved" ?

List of collectives and organisations achieving privacy and security manuals with a gender perspective

• Tactical technology collective - 'Zen and the art of making tech work for you'

Linkː https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_manual Licenseː Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Languageː English (future translations are previewed)

Tactical Technology Collective (in the framework of its one year project “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”) has released in September 2015 a manual tackling some privacy and security issues from a gender perspective. It is the result of a collaborative effort that has involved our growing community of women and trans* activists, human rights defenders and technologists. The manual was created in response to our community’s requests for ideas and guidance on topics they needed, but couldn’t find elsewhere and has been written and reviewed by over 20 women coming from 19 different countries. The current content focuses on two overlapping issues: First, how can we craft appropriate online presences (or a series of them) that strengthen our ability to communicate and work online safely?; Secondly, how can we collaboratively create safe online and offline spaces that enable our communities to share, collaborate, and communicate safely?

The manual grew out of the 2014 Gender and Technology Institute, organised by Tactical Technology Collective and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Until next January 2016, we hope to achieve a better understanding of the readers audience, their background and needs and also to gather through this extended community more feed back about the manual in order to get a better grasp of the dimensions that are missing and which are the other tools, processes, readings and cases studies that should be added. We hope to have it translated, edited and printed in 2016.

• FemTechNet - "Addressing anti-feminist violence online"

Linkː http://dmlcompetition.net/proposals/addressing-anti-feminist-violence-online/ Licenseː ? Languageː English

This project is housed at the Arizona State University and is being currently developed by the network of feminist academics FemTechNet to support women that experiences harassment online to respond. The central focus of this proposal is the development of educational and informational resources that will enable educators and advocates to ensure that connected learning and engagement can proceed even in the face of hostility and harassment. Connected learning breaks down if feminists and women of all ages feel unsafe in digital spaces; we can’t end online harassment, but we can ensure that everyone has the tools necessary to maximize the safety of learners and their data.

FemTechNet has been a leader in online and distributed education with the highly successful Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC). In addition to extensive presence within accredited institutions, the DOCC includes community courses and self-directed learners who access the resources, materials, tools, and communities online. With these experiences in virtual, blended, and face-to-face classrooms, FemTechNet is uniquely situated to be able to educate and serve online feminist learning communities. We have a well-developed content structure, including high-quality video dialogues, as well as a system for holding teach-ins and open online office hours. Our distributed model of online education also facilitates peer-to-peer connections, thereby strengthening and expanding the level of communal engagement possible with this project.

• Association for Progressive Communications - "Take back the tech"

Linkː https://www.takebackthetech.net/ Licenseː Copyleft Languageː English, French, Spanish

Take Back The Tech is a global campaign that connects the issue of violence against women and information and communications technology (ICT). It aims to raise awareness on the way violence against women is occurring on ICT platforms such as the Internet and mobile phones, and to call for people to use ICT in activism to end violence against women. It was initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme, in 2006. Since then, the campaign has been taken up and organised by individuals, collectives and non-governmental organizations in at least 24 countries. The platform includes various manuals and howtos such asː

- The "know more section" which list specific information regarding types of Violence Against Women such as Black mail, cyberstalking and hate speech. - In 2015 they have released with Just Associates (JASS) Southern Africa and Women's Net the following manualː ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit

• Chayn.org

Linkː Licenseː Languageː

CHAYN is an open-source project that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression so they can live happier and healthier lives. Running solely on the passion of skilled volunteers, Chayn leverages technology to address the problems women face today. We are also a pro bono service to charities who work with vulnerable women.

- How to build your own domestic violence case without a lawyer is based on their experience from working with survivors of domestic abuse and their realisation that women can often not have access to legal aid/help because they are either very depressed, it’s too difficult for them to think their way around the legal jargon, they cannot physically approach a lawyer and increasingly, there is no legal aid or counsel is too expensive. Irrespective of whether someone wants to take legal action (criminal, divorce, child custody or asylum) – collecting and presenting evidence is critical. - In the next months they will release the manual How Someone Can Track You Online And Offline – And What You Can Do About It' that deals with issues faced by women that face stalking and invasion of privacy by abusers. The guide addresses how to avoid being tracked online and offline (http://chayn.co/staying-safe/).

open tech project in developping toolkits for women empowerment online and offline, how can somebody track you and you can react, for survivors, we work with them and we wirte them with them, advice from experts. It is volunteer base, there is no funding, will be launch next months. CC BY

EFF self defense guide / relaunch in november 2014 with a specific grant / strating guide to assess your need / playlists with curated tools for specific groups people (students, LGTBQ, etc), tutorials and spefici guides on topics. Translated into 9 languages. Changes to content are suggested by people of the team maitaining, playlist for librarians are based on work on the ground with specific communitues . Licensing: Creative Commons Attribution License,

CommunityRed / use existing resources ADAPT (http://www.communityred.org/#adapt-game) game to teach threat modeling to make decision skills , prototype phase, exist in english, ideally could be trabslated but will need adaptation to communities / study on what causes adoption of security skills, including behavior change , better ideas and pedagogy approach + organisational security audit model (not available for comercial uses, see TechHUG)

Chayn.org open tech project in developping toolkits for women empowerment online and offline, how can somebody track you and you can react, for survivors, we work with them and we wirte them with them, advice from experts. It is volunteer base, there is no funding, will be launch next months. CC BY

Online abuse prevention initiative / guide about social media and what is online harassment /

NEEDS Money / eff has expertise on getting money, technologists who can answer technical questions, and experienced trainers and is excited to support other people's projects!! femtechnet has academia need to brigde spaces outside the academia but they have time and can help to build advocacy / resources chayn needs reviewers + linking accross platforms hamara internet no money for producing resources but use available materials of TTC and take back the tech and EFF translate TTC need case studies and reviewers needs need to be express in a timely fashion community practices / you can not develop security alone, we need a meeting to work on the com of practices and assess failures/successes

Contact mails:

   alexandra@tacticaltech.org
   shauna@communityred.org
   Jacqueline Wernimont (Addressing Antifeminist Violence) jwernimo@asu.edu
   nadia@eff.org
   nighat@digitalrightsfoundation.pk
   nadine@apcwomen.org
   hera@chayn.co
   lnakamur@umich.edu
   
   

Follow ups tactical tech wiki (we will get log ins): gendersec wiki communityred are developping a tool enbaling exchnage communities

Gap knowledge:

   material in mandarin
   mesh networks? 
   law enforcement guide
   Need law enforcement guide in Pakistani (and other!) contexts
   Training programs esepcially for women trainers - 100 women trainers

resources we can share with each other case studies cultural translation language translation technical translation platform (NAF) / space for discussing with USG officials reviewing each other's manuals giving activist perspective to academia

http://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/index.php/Seguridad_digital/Digital_Security https://ssd.eff.org/ chayn.co/how-to-build-your-own-case/ chayn.co/staying-safe/ http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/ http://paranoidsbible.tumblr.com/post/114108745259/opt-out-master-list