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Jennifer Radloff
Jennifer Radloff in 2015, by Robert Hamblin
Jennifer Radloff in 2015, by Robert Hamblin
OccupationAPC Women's Rights Programme
Years active1980s - present
Known forPioneer on ICT for social justice South Africa

Jennifer Radloff (born 1961, Durban) is a South African feminist activist and a pioneer on Information and communications technology (ICT) for social justice.[1] She works for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in the Women's Rights Programme and is a board member of Women's Net.

Career

Radloff is a South African activist who has been involved in women's rights since 1992, with a special focus on access to technology and ICT[2] and capacity-building through digital security and digital storytelling. She created, along with APC's Women's Rights Programme, the Gender and Evaluation Methodology for Internet and ICTs,[3] a learning tool that integrates a gender analysis in the evaluation of initiatives that use ICTs for social change that has been used by over 100 community-based organisations in over 25 countries.[4]

Between 1995 and 2002, she worked as the communications manager at the African Gender Institute, a feminist research and teaching group that studies issues related to gender in Africa. She has undertaken consultancies for UNDP, United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and Rockefeller Foundation, and presented at numerous international and regional conferences, training and capacity building workshops and strategic dialogues.[5]

Before joining APC, she worked at the University of Cape Town in the Social Justice Resource Project setting up an alternative resource centre, and then moved to the African Gender Institute to lead the communications and networking programme. While at the African Gender Institute she organised the first pan-African consultative workshop to link up librarians in Africa using email in order to share indigenous knowledge. She is a trainer and facilitator and has managed many projects, including GenARDIS – Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society. Radloff was involved in the formation of Women'sNet in South Africa, and was on the board until the end of 2016. She serves on the executive committee of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition.

Publications

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Articles and journals

References

  1. ^ Scott, Anna (26 April 2013). "Making ICTs work for social justice and development". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Young feminist movements: the power of technology". openDemocracy. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Jennifer Radloff | GEM | Gender Evaluation Methodology". www.genderevaluation.net. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Gender Evaluation Methodology for Internet and ICTs | Association for Progressive Communications". www.apc.org. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  5. ^ Karaman, Semanur (28 November 2016). "We, women who defend rights, are beautiful". Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Why should human rights funders care about digital security?". AWID. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Digital Storytelling: All our stories are true and they are ours! | GenderIT.org". www.genderit.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Hacking exclusion: African feminists engagements and disruption of the internet | GenderIT.org". www.genderit.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Digital Security – from silencing to claiming safe spaces | GenderIT.org". www.genderit.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Cómo influye el activismo en tu experiencia como ciudadana de internet | GenderIT.org". www.genderit.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  11. ^ "How activism shapes your experience of being a citizen on the internet | GenderIT.org". www.genderit.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Feminist Africa 18. 2013: e-spaces : e-politics | African Gender Institute". agi.ac.za. Archived from the original on 7 September 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  13. ^ "African cyberfeminism in the 21st century". openDemocracy. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  14. ^ Jennifer, Radloff (2005). "Claiming Cyberspace: Communication and Networking for Social Change and Women's Empowerment". Feminist Africa (4): 85–98.
  15. ^ Radloff, Jennifer; Primo, Natasha (1 December 2002). "Net Gains for Women in Africa". Development. 45 (4): 41–48. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110403. ISSN 1011-6370. S2CID 85326715.
  16. ^ OCHIENG, RUTH; RADLOFF, JENNY (1 January 1998). "Relevant and accessible electronic information networking in Africa". Agenda. 14 (38): 63–69. doi:10.2307/4066063. ISSN 1013-0950. JSTOR 4066063.
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