Story Time!

Self Proclaimed Story Teller:

Fariha Akhtar

Story of three students!

Nerdy

TBTTier

Super Friendly

My Facebook friends list just touched 1650!

Huh!Let me Google applications of Newton’s Law

of Reaction

Thank God! I’m safe!

Stalkers’n’Harassers all around….

You both need to know about

TBTT!

Take Back The Tech

• Initiated by APC WNSP

• Here in Pakistan, it was initiated by:

TakeBackTheTech.Org

• 16 – Day Campaign

• Starts every year on

– Nov 25 – International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women

• Ends on

– Dec 6 – International Human Rights Day

• Each day is dedicated to an issue

Have we stopped living?

• Harassment – Cyber Harassment

• Stalking – Cyber Stalking

• Bully – Cyber bullying

• Threats – Threaten Emails and Text Messages

• Morphing of photos

• CRIME – E-CRIME ……

Beware!

• Make use of Privacy Controls offered by each website

• Befriend only those whom you know well

• Bots harvesting photos - Watermark your pictures!

That’s what we did!

Not yours or mine, it was oursfrom the start

Events and more…

• National Strategy Conference in Karachi

• Session with the legal community at Lahore

• Pakistan’s first Feminist Tech Exchange in Islamabad

• Small Grants - Sub-e-Nau and Gawaahi(http://gawaahi.com/ )

• TakeBackTheTech won People’s Choice Award at the 1st Digital Natives Workshop in Taiwan.

Why limit to 16 days?

• Articles in Print media (Spider Magazine, Express Tribune, IPS

• TV Programs

• Radio Shows

• TBTTiers come to your rescue!

• Support protests and initiatives against VAW (Violence Against Women)

Localization of TBTT Logos!

TBTT Gilgit Baltistan Logo – Any takers?

What can you do?

• Share stories of survivors – this will give others hope and ideas

• Create awareness about Cyber harassment and what you can do to avoid it using Online, using SMS or otherwise talking to people formally on informally.

• Spread information messages in English as well as Urdu and perhaps also in Balti so that it is understandable to more and more people.

• TakeBackTheTech Ambassador

For those who are still awake……

…and then they

lived happily ever

after in the tech

world….

References

• All characters created using: http://www.southparkstudios.com/avatar/

• Jehan Ara’s caricature: http://tinyurl.com/PakSatireJA• Facebook Dating Ads Article:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/facebook-dating-ads-2/

• Post Card/Bags’ Picture: By Jamashhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jamash/

• Lady Justice’s Image: www.friendsoftalk.com• Duck Image:

http://www.nataliedee.com/090106/story-time.jpg