Bridging the Technological Gap: Feminist Approach to

Technology (FAT)

Deepa RanganathanCommunications & Outreach

Associate

What is What is our our

mission?mission?

Empower women Empower women by enhancing by enhancing

women’s women’s awareness, awareness, interest and interest and

participation in participation in technologytechnology

How do we do this?

- Breaking societal stereotypes - Breaking societal stereotypes and attitudesand attitudes- Encouraging and enabling - Encouraging and enabling women to feel capable and women to feel capable and comfortable in working with comfortable in working with technologytechnology- Collaborating with other - Collaborating with other women’s organizations to women’s organizations to mainstream the issue of mainstream the issue of engendering technologyengendering technology

Apna Haq: Our RightApna Haq: Our Right

Apna Haq: the idea and the Apna Haq: the idea and the objectiveobjective

• Equip young girls with the technical skills needed for filmmaking

• Utilize the power of media to address a social relevant issue—lack of toilets

• Enable girls to emerge as young, feminist leaders by being engaged in the filmmaking and screening process

• Raise awareness on the issue of health, hygiene and safety of young girls

Lack of clean

toilets in the

community

HygieneSanitation

HealthEducation

TeasingHarassment

DependabilitySafety & Mobility

•20-30 girls batch of girls engaged in a three-month training on photography, radio and videography by Pooja Pant, head of Voices of Women Media, Nepal

•All participants were adolescent girls, from urban slums of South Delhi, who are already engaged with FAT at the Tech Center

Tech Center: A woman-friendly Tech Center: A woman-friendly spacespace

• Working with girls from urban slums of Lajpat Nagar area, New Delhi aged between 14-25

• Equipping them with basic computer skills, Internet, camera and film-making

• Classes interspersed with workshops on women’s rights, feminism, sexuality and other socially relevant issues

Outcome, Impact, ChallengesOutcome, Impact, Challenges• Girls involved in the production of a

documentary film that they owned • Participated in community activism by

organizing film screenings• Functional locks in the toilet, cameras

installed outside; people more responsible in using toilets

• Garnering support from male members, covering tabooed topics like harassment and menstruation

Fundraising and further Fundraising and further advocacyadvocacy

•Apna Haq book

•Film screenings at IHC, Lok Kala Manch

•Recipient of awards

•Project Early Marriage

CONTACT US!CONTACT US!

134 Basement, Vinobhapuri,

Lajpat Nagar II, New Delhi—

110024 fat@fat-net.org

http://fat-net.org