Introducing the Digital Enquirer Kit on Online Gender Based Violence

Session Format: Panel Discussion

"For the past nine months, KICTANet in partnership with GIZ and the University of West Indies(UWI) have been developing the fifth e-learning module of the Digital Enquirer Kit (DEK) on Online Gender Based Violence(OGBV). The journey towards the final English module has been exhilarating, insightful, and a bold step for KICTANet and UWI which are based in the Global South and the Caribbean. The e-learning module broadly tackles the concepts of gender, and sexual orientation. Women, sexual minorities, and people who do not conform to societal gender norms are disproportionately targeted by both online and offline gender-based violence. Essentially, these biases based on gender form the motivation and content comprising online gender-based violence. The session will create awareness of OGBV drawing from the experiences of Kenyan women online, present the possible triggers of the rampant OGBV and introduce module 5 of the Digital Enquirer Kit on Online Gender-Based Violence."