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What is DATAWO
DATAWO is a Non-Profit Organisation founded by a group of female lawyers, Anastasia Karagianni and Anthi Argyriou, for the advocacy of gender equality in the digital age. DATAWO is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Why DATAWO was founded
As technology is being rapidly developed, we have realised that the stereotypes of the patriarchal society, which we live in, are also replicated in the digital world, which is dominated and coded mainly by cis straight men. For this reason, we decided to take action in Greece in order to raise awareness on issues about gender-based violence facilitated by digital means, such as cyber-stalking, image-based sexual abuse, and about gender equality issues related to the design and deployment of new technological systems in a discriminatory way based on gender and sexual orientation.
What is the target group and action of DATAWO
DATAWO’s work is targeted to women without age limit. At this point, we feel the need to clarify that by women we mean people who identify themselves as women. We firmly believe that no one needs to be limited to stereotypical gender categories. Everyone is free to determine their gender as they feel.
Very briefly, the aim of our action is to raise public awareness of gender equality and gender-based violence issues in the digital space and, consequently, and to create a communication channel with the groups of people affected by the challenges before mentioned and civil society organisations, in order to make our voices stronger and protect women’s rights in digital environments.
Our field of activity concerns:
- conducting legal research on the above issues,
- raising publicly the awareness of these issues, such as by organising online talks or information webinars or trainings,
- collaborating with the civil society at local, European and international level.
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Gender equality concerns us all! Together we are stronger. Together we can change this world!