It’s good news to know that more women are actively joining internet governance discussions and that they are starting to take steps so that women’s rights activists and their movement include internet governance issues in their agenda.
Little by little, the number of women participating in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has increased significantly, and their presence in panels and workshops and as participants has brought new insights into the discussion of the different matters that are key in IGF debates. In 2012 the IGF Gender Coalition with the contribution of the APC Women’s Rights Programme implemented the use of an IGF gender report card to gather consistent information about women’s real participation in IGFs. According to a previous report by Diplo Foundation (2011), women’s participation in IGFs had grown significantly since the first meeting in 2006, from 21.98% to 30.85% in 2011. Since then, the gender report cards have helped to gather information that shows a moderate improvement in gender inclusion and parity.
Read the full Feminist Talk in GenderIT.org .