In Filipino slang, "ka-BLOG" would mean someone you blog with.
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Check out this campaign to use blogging to get the discussion going about technology and violence against women!
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ka-BLOG! We want to take over the blogosphere for 16 days.
ka-BLOG! is a 16-day blog fest for the Take Back the Tech Campaign. It is open to anyone and everyone - girls, boys, everyone beyond and more -- who wants to share their thoughts, write poetry and prose, post graphics / pictures, rant, rave, heckle, make snide remarks, stick their tongue out at violence against women, and how online communications can exacerbate or help eliminate VAW.
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What is the campaign about?
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It is simply a call for every person– women and men, who uses online communications (ICTs), e.g. for chatting, emailing, blogging, doing websites or developing tools, to use ICTs for activism against VAW (violence against women) for 16 days. Primarily, we are asking women and grrls to “Take Back The Tech!” But you don’t have to be female to disagree with violence faced by women and be part of the campaign to transform gender relations. Unequal power relations lie at the heart of VAW, and this is apparent from the streets to online spaces. So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence.
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How to ka-BLOG?
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1. *commit*: commit yourself to 16 days of blogging about violence against women and technology.
2. *email*: Email ideas@takebackthetech.net, with your blog address and name/handle/nick if you want to sign up as a Ka-BLOGger, if possible, before 25 November. f you don't have a blog yet, this will be a great place to start! Email us, and we'll send you links on how to start your own blog :)
3. *identify*: make it known by putting a takebackthetech icon on your blog — create your own or grab a few icons from our Campaign Tools and Materials.
4. *post*: post something about the how you think violence against women connects with information communications technology? have a story? heard something quirky? snap a picture? think this is serious? doesn't make much sense? anything at all! just post one thing a day from 25 nov to 10 dec on thinking about violence against women
5. tag it: use "takebackthetech" to tag your posts (http://www.takebackthetech.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=blogathon#tag)
6. link back: send in your bloglinks and and we'll rss your posts to the campaign website throughout the 16 day
7. expand: widen the campaign to your readers by linking your blog to the campaign site .
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What to ka-BLOG! About?
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So long as it's about violence against women (well, against) and how it connects to ICTs (and vice versa). So long as it's about gender relations. So long as it's about how women can have more control over technology. So long as it's about women and gender equality.
It does not matter to us if the blog entries come in the form of jokes, limmericks, poetry, short stories, blurbs, graphics, pictures, articles, creative narratives.
We welcome bloggers in different languages! So ka-BLOG! with us!
For more information on ka-BLOG!, go http://www.takebackthetech.net
[FYI. In Filipino slang, "ka-BLOG" would mean someone you blog with.]
For more information and questions, send an email to: jac@apcwomen.org.
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