This session is facilitated by Alexandra Argüelles, Anaiz Zamora, Samantha Camacho
About this session
In this session we look forward to continue a learning and developing process we’ve been working on from Mexico City, prior to the Tor Meeting that was held there in October 2018 (https://blog.torproject.org/hack-us-mexico-city-hackea-con-tor-en-mexico).
This process is called “La Tormenta” (The Storm), referring to how a group of 10 women who came from non-tech savvy backgrounds working on grassroots advocacy, journalism, activism and human rights defense, and our group of 10 women from different tech-communities (which provide a feminist, intersectional, and critical reflection on the use of technology) got together to understand how our different experiences as women in Latin America relate: understanding how/where the technologies we use are made, who are they designed by, to whom are their manuals addressed, etc.
Goals of this session
We aim to develop new ever-changing ways to inhabit the internet, while figuring out new ways to create safe environments for our information and our communications by also being capable of producing contents that empower our communities, such as the “anti-manual” on identity and anonymity we produced last year: https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/que-no-quede-huella.pdf.
This sessions seeks to answer -by sharing experiences and points of view with the participants- two main questions:
- Which are the joys and challenges that expressing our identities online have brought us, as communities and individuals?
- How can we promote free and safe spaces online, facing the sophisticated ways in which data collection targets and exploits our identities?