Gender and Internet Governance Exchange (gigX) Delhi, 28 November 2023

As part of the Our Voices Our Futures collaboration with the Association For Progressive Communications (APC), Point of View organised gigX (Gender and Internet Governance Exchange) – a daylong workshop on demystifying Internet Governance and infusing gender into it. This was a learning workshop held in Delhi on 28 November, 2023, with organisations working with women, gender and sexual minorities – organisations who would like to understand Internet Governance, why this is relevant to our work and how to influence this critical policy-making domain. We had 30 participants from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, Bangalore and Shimla, including women, queer and trans folx.
The main objectives of gigX was to build capacities to enable such groups to meaningfully engage in Internet Governance spaces by:
1) Building knowledge and understanding of key concepts, processes, practices and politics of Internet Governance;
2)Building knowledge of emerging issues concerning Internet Governance, and how they impact women, girls, queer and trans folx, persons with disabilities and sex workers, through a feminist, intersectional lens;
3) Identifying gaps and trends, and exploring advocacy strategies to influence discourse on gender and sexual rights in Internet Governance spaces.