Tech and Equality
Women’s Issues on Social Media in Egypt: The Dynamics and Limits of Public Debate
Social media is central to debates on women’s rights in Egypt. This paper examines how algorithms, state institutions, echo chambers, polarization, and generative AI shape these debates.
Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence Models: How Data Reproduces Discrimination Against Women
This paper examines the phenomenon of gender bias in AI models by defining the concept and exploring its principal manifestations, immediate effects, and broader consequences. It also analyzes the underlying causes of such bias, investigating how the development, training, and operational functioning of AI systems can contribute to its emergence or perpetuation.
Internet Governance and Gender Justice: Representation Gaps and the Limits of the Multistakeholder Model
This paper examines the complex relationship between internet governance and gender justice. It begins by outlining the importance of fair gender representation within internet governance spaces. It then analyzes the current state of such representation, highlighting the persistent gender gap within a governance landscape that remains largely institutional and structurally exclusionary.
Content Creation and Gender Dynamics: Who Shapes the Other?
This paper examines the two-way relationship between content creation and gender dynamics: how the internet opens spaces for self-expression, social influence, and income, while algorithms, market logics, and cultural expectations reshape that expression.
Why Do Social Media Platforms Fail to Address Gender-Based Violence?
This paper examines how social media policies fuel the growth of cyber gender-based violence and its persistence. It highlights structural flaws in current protective measures on these platforms and offers recommendations to boost online safety for women and girls.
Gender Sensitivity in Digital Technology: Approaches for Designing Tools that Promote Justice and Equality
This paper offers a practical definition of gender sensitivity, emphasizing its importance, necessity, and mechanisms for its implementation. The paper also discusses gender sensitivity within digital technology and proposes two approaches for its integration into the lifecycle of digital products and services.
The Absence of Women in Open Source Software: A Challenge to the Principles of Inclusion and Openness
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating women into the open-source software community. It presents the current state of women’s participation in the open-source community, explores the main barriers to their inclusion, and finally, discusses approaches to promote integration, including mentoring and training programs, inclusive policies for open-source projects, and support for community networks.
Digital Pressures: Challenges Affecting Women’s Mental Health in the Virtual World
This paper discusses the impact of women’s experiences in the digital world on their mental health. It provides a brief overview of the main gender-based pressures women face in the digital world, their impact on women’s mental health, and ways to address these pressures.
Progressive Communications as a Tool for Advancing Gender Equality
This paper seeks to provide an overview of the intersection between progressive communications and gender. It discusses the role that progressive communications can play in supporting efforts to achieve gender equality, including the opportunities available and the means to support them.