This parallel event to the UNCSW67 will gather members of the trade union and feminist movements in a global conversation to put together a common agenda for a gender-transformative digital new deal.

Movements will discuss their common approach to framing this digital new deal, connecting it to the Declaration of Feminist Digital Justice launched on 6 March by IT for Change and DAWN and visualizing a future and common coalition work.

Friday 10 March, 12:30 EST, CCNU, 8th Floor. Please register here

Background

The current dominant order of the digital age has intensified exclusion, extraction, commodification, and capital accumulation.

 The enormous market power of corporations and Big Tech have captured national governments facilitating privatisation through the promotion of tech solutions for public services; as well as avoiding tax obligations and manipulating trade negotiations to guarantee monopoly rights, leading to greater inequality and feminised poverty.

 In parallel, massive deregulation, intensification, and precariousness of labour across digital platforms, digitalisation, and telework are changing the world of work and greatly impacting women in the informal and formal economy, including in public services.

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithmic pro-profit use have pushed for the commodification of women’s sexual and reproductive health through increased digital monitoring and surveillance that datafies them and undermines their human and women’s rights.

 This order is provoking the exacerbation of gender and intersecting inequalities that trigger exclusion, predominantly for women and women workers worsened by the unjust current organisation of care and exposure to digital violence.

 No gender transformative change will be possible under these conditions.

 In this context PSI, DAWN, ActionAid, OXFAM, CESR, GI-ESCR, GATJ, TJN, Womankind, FEMNET, and IT for Change have joined forces to call for a digital new deal.

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