The Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) is an initaive of APC Women's Neworking Porgramme that was developed in response to the calls from feminis and women's rights movements for greater understaning of emerging technologies, their potential and impact on the rights and lives of women.
FTX aims at building the knowledge and skills on communication rights and informatin and communication technologies from a feminst perspectives.It explores feminst practices and politics of technology and raises awareness on the critical role of communication rights in the struggle to advance women's rights world wide.
The FTX training in AWID attracted more than 100 participants from different countries were trained increative and strategic use of ICT facilities such as video, audio, social networking platforms, Digital storytelling and mobile and wireless technologies.
There were daily theatic plenary discussion such as ...... and skills sharing session from different tracks
All the tracks were interesting and practical and at the end of the three days training each track presented what they had managed to do
The video track presented video clips that featured participants opinions of feminist technolohy practices. The audio presented radio spots, the mobile technology demonstrated how to set up a wireless nework and bulk sms, the digital storytellers also screened their stories about their personal lives which ranged from identiy crisis and feminism.
All the plenary session were broadcasted live from FIRE Radio
