Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review
Digital Gender Divide: Prevention, Regulation, Empowerment
You are invited to join a side event to the Asia-Pacific Regional Review of the 30th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
This event will focus on “Digital Gender Divide: Prevention, Regulation, Empowerment”.
Technology will determine the future of gender equality across all areas of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is a growing issue, with estimates that 85% of women globally have witnessed or experienced it (Economist Intelligence Unit). As countries across Asia Pacific become more reliant on the digital economy and workplaces have more technology embedded into their practices, there is an urgent need to ensure all people have the knowledge and skills to engage with digital technologies, and that access is safe, secure and inclusive. This imminent global challenge will be examined from various perspectives, including governments responsible for designing regulations, civil society advocates and academic TFGBV researchers.
This panel will explore the following issues:
- The extent to which countries should adopt (or have adopted) regulations with a human rights-centered and safety-by-design approach to technology;
- The need to ensure technologies do not facilitate GBV whilst addressing the gender digital divide;
- Innovative approaches to address TFGBV by governments and civil society;
- The stakeholder collaboration and research required to identify a range of best practices.
Participants will also be invited to create a virtual ‘Big Idea Wall’ to share their ideas on what Beijing Action on digitization and addressing TFGBV would look like.
Speaker 1: Hon. Lynda Tabuya, Fiji Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection
Speaker 2: Ms Stephanie Copus Campbell AM, Australian Ambassador for Gender Equality
Speaker 3: Ms Tarunima Prabhakar, Co-Founder, Tattle
Speaker 4: Professor Sara Davies, Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women