Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Technology'
How Far Should CouchSurfing Go to Ensure Women’s Safety?
by Mandy Van Deven -USA- When I began to understand the immensity of the world, I felt a visceral inclination to discover all that it possessed – or at least as much of it as I could. There was, however,...
Screenless Sundays: Almost Amish Tips for Taking A Technology Fast
by Nancy Sleeth -USA- Something is wrong, terribly wrong, about our time. We feel it like a splinter in our hearts. There is no room for margin: we Twitter while we drive, talk while we text, and surf until we...
Innovative Internet-based Projects Give Indian Women Platform to Fight Violence
by Paromita Pain -India- Gropes, stealthy fingers that pinch and leave bruises, catcalls, severe beatings, systematic starvation, emotional torture and worse – harassment against women takes many forms, and like issues of hunger and poverty, it is global in scope....
In the Sinai Desert, Radio Sharm is Live and Well
by Victoria Aitken -UK- The Sinai desert has a new underground radio station - the only one to escape a ban on live radio transmissions - and it is breaking records for a radio station of its size. Radio Sharm’s...
India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...
Video Testimonials Document Politically Motivated Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe
by Abigail Wendle - USA - According to the Zimbabwe Rape Survivors Association, during last year’s highly contested presidential election an estimated 2,000 women and girls were the targets of politically-motivated sexual violence in Zimbabwe. State-sanctioned groups under President Robert...
Brain Undrain: America’s Loss Is India’s Gain
by Shreyasi Singh - India - The weakening global economy is helping reverse India’s much-lamented “brain drain” as hundreds of techies, scientists and corporate managers, primarily from the US, are homeward bound. India’s booming economy has aided this influx. Its...
Using Twitter: from Conversation to Community
by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - “First day in Parliament. From the sublime (the historic Central Hall for the Cong legislators meeting) to the bureacratic (8 forms to fill)!” - 12:17 AM May 19th from TwitterBerry One of India’s newest...
Cultural Challenges and Personal Sacrifices: Is the Journey Worth it for Hispanic Women in Hi-Tech?
by Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk - USA - Talking to my friend Nevada Flores* about her decision to leave her comfortable engineering job reminded me of one of our scary trips into the Cuyamaca Mountains outside San Diego. An avid hiker,...
Remote Warfare Radically Changes the Front Lines
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In ancient times, warriors could look one another in the eye on the battlefield. War was fought with minimal weaponry, a person-to-person test of bravery and strength. Battlefields were clearly demarcated, extending only...
Women in Media: The Value of Women’s Stories and Perspectives
An Online Community Chat with Carol Jenkins
and Patricia DeGennaro
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - The WIP launched in 2007 on International Women’s Day, a commemorative day that marks the centuries-old struggle women have faced to participate in society on equal footing with men. The...
E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump
by Michelle Chen - USA - The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, embodies a collision between past and future. Amid acidic plumes of smoke and vast mountains of trash, migrants scour for valuable scraps using...
More Internet Equals More Jobs: Reviving the Economy with Broadband
by Megan Tady - USA - Connie Toops would be content photographing birds all day long. In fact, she’s made a business of it, working as a professional freelance nature photographer. Her office could be her backyard – she moved...
Silver Surfers: Senior Citizens in India Embrace the Internet to Cope with a Lonely Future
by Lesley D. Biswas - India - Dennis Meredith has two sprawling bungalows on 15 acres of rich fertile country land in McCluskiegunj where he has spent his life nurturing a beautiful garden and orchard. Dennis has lived here since...
Kashmir's Private Industry Offers Solutions Where Government Falls Short
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - With soaring unemployment and a private sector still in troubled infancy, for the last few decades, government has provided the bulk of Kashmir’s jobs. Yet today this may be changing; on the heels...
Lonely in an Electronic Wilderness: “the great emotional sickness of our era”
by Handan T. Satiroglu - USA/Turkey - “Technology allows us to separate ourselves from reality – moving people away from the real to the imagined, from the emotional to the controlled,” observes Derek V. Smith in an email interview. The...
The Pink Chaddi Campaign: Landing a Pink Slap on the Face of Moral Policing in India
by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - India is now the land of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women. Who would have thought?...
Online Education Could Help More Students Make it to Class
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In an age of ever-busier schedules, escalating costs and dwindling funding for public education, the image of the full-time college student, loafing in libraries and flipping through volumes of political theory in campus...
Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water?
by Jessica Mosby - USA - After seeing the new documentary Flow, my 2009 New Year’s resolution is to stop buying bottled water. Over $100 billion is spent annually on bottled water, but it would cost only $30 billion to...
Freedom Machines: Empowerment through Technology
by Jessica Mosby - USA - There will always be those who yearn for a simpler time, a time before the world was consumed by the internet and ever-advancing technologies. For the 54 million people living with disabilities in the...
A Review of 'Made to Break": Technology and Obsolescence in America
by Anna Clark USA Green consciousness is finally hitting that bastion of carbon emissions with a war-inducing appetite for oil: the American automobile. Between the nationwide Step It Up campaign of community activism and Al Gore’s Academy-Award winning documentary, An...
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