Hi all,

i do think that most cases of women violence happens in rural areas or slums (assumption ....i dnt have statistics and i stand to be corrected).

 if we are to use technology in form of tools like blogs / cell phones we must remember that the internet penetration levels are very low in the rural areas and hence may not reach the targeted or larger audience.

it begins with us we must strive to come up with guidelines that will ensure that in Kenya even the very remote areas in the near future will have a tool for women to raise there voices. we can train women on this skills to blog, create websites but without internet connection there is no platform to air this views.

we must also ask our self's why there is violence against women its only after we understand this that we can solve this primitive behavior . interestingly in Congo this is what women think about it via an sms poll.

the women
  • Despite all forms of violence that I suffer at the hands of my husband, I consider them as accidents and I think he will change.
  • We are forced to suffer all forms of violence, because we love our men, despite their violence, and also because of the children. And sometimes we don't have a good social situation, because there is nothing for us anymore at our parents' home.
  • Yes, you're scared of losing our home if ever we think to lodge a complaint or ask ourselves where will we live, especially when you don't work.
  • We don't know who to turn to when we are victims of violence, because our friends give bad advice.
  • For fear of further abuse, we are sometimes obliged to go along with the decisions of our husbands, even when they are bad.
  • Does justice really care about these kinds of problems? When I went to the police (PSP), I was told we had to settle amicably, because he is my husband.

    • tomorrow i will share what the men think.

    regards,

    kelvin


    On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Charles Oloo <oloo6382@gmail.com> wrote:
    Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] Kenya IGF Online discussions Day 3: Technology and Violence against women

    Listers.

    1. How can we strengthen participation of women in areas of internet governance, telecommunications, and cyber crime policy regulation?

    This is a very important Q. Although there are many options to tackle such problems, the best method would be using the same tools to address the problem. Bloging may not be very popular or used by a large proportion of women, but it provides an instant window to combat those using the same for bad purposes. The speed by which information is passed -spread thro blogging, tweeting, FB etc is so fast and quicker that the normal channels and procedures one may use to reports such occurrences.
    web2fordev] Web 2.0 Learning Opportunities that teach people to use social media tools. If women are empowered with these technologies, they stand a better chance of combating the problem.

    Charles


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