The campaign highlights the way that
violence against women is taking new forms through the use of ICT. This includes: • Online
harassment. For example, when a harasser sends repeated, unwanted, threatening and/or sexualised messages through the use of
email or
SMS. This can also include posting personal information about the victim and/or
digitally altered images of the victim on public forums and websites, often accompanied by messages that solicit sexual or violent responses. •
Cyberstalking. For example, the use of
social networking platforms such as
Facebook and
Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of
spyware to monitor a person's
computer and
Internet use, and the use of
global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a
domestic violence abuser. • Online
violation of privacy and
blackmail. For example, actual or threatened posting of private photographs and video clips that are usually sexualised in nature on Internet sites with the aim to humiliate another person, or to make the person comply with the demands of the poster. Research indicates that the majority of technology-enabled forms of violence victims are women. The campaign also recognises that the
gender digital divide contributes to unequal power relations that create enabling contexts for violence against women to occur. To address this disparity, campaigners are encouraged to: • Recall and give recognition to the historical contribution that women have made into the development of ICT, such as the contribution of
Ada Lovelace and
Grace Hopper. • Build the capacity of women and girls in the use of new ICT. • Foster an attitude of experimentation and play with new ICT to overcome
technophobia. • Engage in activism and advocacy to improve Internet policy development that takes the gendered dimension of ICT into account. == Campaigns and recognition ==