Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Subject: ๐๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ง BRITISH ACADEMY GCRF PROJECT UPDATE: Disconnected Infrastructures & Violence Against Women (VAW)
๐๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ง British Academy GCRF 'Disconnected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women (VAW): Innovating Digital Technologies in Low-Income Neighbourhoods to Produce Safer Indian Cities' research project (#DIVAWProject) ๐๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ง
https://www.britac.ac.uk/disconnected-infrastructures-and-violence-against-women
Principal Investigator: Dr Ayona Datta, King's College London
Co-Investigators: Dr Don Slater, London School of Economics and Political Science; Dr Joanne Entwistle, King's College London; Dr Rakhi Tripathi, FORE School of Management, Delhi
Research Associate: Nabeela Ahmed
Societal Partners: Dr Kalpana Viswanath, Co-Founder & CEO, SafetiPin & Sakhi Women's Resource Centre, India
You can find out more about the #DIVAWProject, our team and workshops by exploring our website https://disconnectedinfrastructures.wordpress.com, following us on Twitter https://twitter.com/Infrastruct_VAW and having a look at our Storify https://storify.com/DiscInfraandVAW and latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMHuNxHXOVQ. Please read, watch and share widely!
About the #DIVAWProject:
Continuous and widespread Violence Against Women (VAW) in urban India highlight the challenge of delivering SDGs 5 and 11 - gender equality and safe, sustainable, inclusive cities. In particular, women in low-income urban neighbourhoods face increased sexual and physical assaults during access to and use of connected infrastructures (eg. water, toilets, transport, walkways), which also highlight the challenge of delivering SDG 6 โ clean water and sanitation to all. Combined with this is an acute information and skills gap in technology use amongst these women that impedes their knowledgeable and empowered engagement with social and material assemblages of urban infrastructures. This project will take a rights-based approach to the challenge: How to address VAW by improving womenโs knowledge of and safe access to urban infrastructure in the Indian city. The project will use innovations in digital technology and open source mapping, co-produced with societal partners, to collect big data on infrastructural blindspots, and deep data on VAW through participatory mapping of infrastructure use.
We organised our second 'Disconnected Infrastructures & Violence Against Women' project workshop entitled 'Digital Infrastructure & Un(Safe) Cities' on 21st February 2018 at King's College London.
We have now completed the initial fieldwork on the SafetiPin software in Delhi, India and organised our second workshop as a multidisciplinary forum for those scholars, professionals and activists working on urban studies, safe cities, digital infrastructures, violence against women (VAW) and gender-based violence (GBV) to generate recommendations on how to address VAW by improving womenโs knowledge of, and safe access to, urban infrastructure in the Indian city in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals 5, 6 and 11. This workshop also allowed the project team and societal partners SafetiPin and Sakhi to get feedback on the initial results from the fieldwork in India from our project Advisory Board and experts.
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