Point of View

🚀 We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, hands-on HR Manager to join our team. 🚀 As our full-time HR Manager, you will be responsible for driving organization development and culture and contribute significantly to building POV 3.0. If you are: ✅ A postgraduate in Business Administration, HR, or Social Work with HR specialization? ✅ Equipped with 8-10 years of experience in HR management or organizational development? ✅ Bringing 5-6 years of valuable experience from the non-profit sector? We want to hear from you! We're particularly interested in candidates with experience in feminist or rights-based organizations. Swipe through for the full job description! If you'd like to apply, please send in your resume, references, salary history, and thoughtful cover letter describing your specific qualifications and interest in the position to vacancies@pointofview.org immediately. We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis. Join us in growing Point of View and shaping the culture of our feminist organization! Sashwati Banerjee Bishakha Datta Zahra Gabuji Shazia Qureshi (She/Her) Maduli Thaosen Megha Garg Prarthana Mitra Rita Nag Chowdhury Yashita Kandhari Shohini B. Jahnabi Mitra Riddhima Sharma, Ph.D. Vaishali Soni Swarali Marathe

I am happy to share that I have started a new position as a Research Intern at Point of View! Point of View is a Mumbai based non-profit that works towards empowering individuals of marginalised genders and sexualities and enables them to shape and inhabit digital spaces.

For a large part of August, I engaged with internet governance stakeholders in Taipei across a range of regional convenings. Grateful and privileged to have participated in these important advocacy and movement building spaces in the following capacities: 🙇♀️Fellow at #DRAPAC 2024: Held over a period of 2 days, this was the sophomore edition of the EngageMedia-led conference that brought together young activists and advocates from the Asia-Pacific region, working for digital rights and a free and safe internet. Attended numerous panels, workshops, game demos, and roundtables that helped set the tenor for APrIGF; I live-tweet my key takeaways on this 🧵: https://lnkd.in/gdPGa-xM 🗣️Speaker at #APrIGF 2024: This edition of the Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Forum saw about a thousand participants who converged over 3 days at the NTUH International Convention Center to talk about emerging opportunities and harms of digital technologies and attempted to trace the contours of a meaningful multi-stakeholderism. I spoke at Association for Progressive Communications’s panel on Gendered Disinformation about the work we do at Point of View to include all internet users in the discourse. Watch here from 6:20 ⏯️ https://lnkd.in/gQYwiBqB ✊🏽Participant at Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development’s Roundtable on Digital Rights and Justice: Had the opportunity to connect with a bunch of badass feminists and spend two days mapping our collective strengths to forge stronger initiatives for digital justice together. 🎬 Also super chuffed to have attended my first #SundanceFilmFestival (Asia) and explore a slice of the beauty that is Taiwan🪻☔️

We're thrilled to announce that our radio show 'Tech Sakhi' has been awarded first prize in the thematic category at the 10th National Community Radio Awards! ℹ About TechSakhi: TechSakhi is India's first multilingual digital security helpline, operating in Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, and Tamil. Our team is dedicated to making online spaces more accessible and safer for girls, women, and marginalized genders. 🗣 Overcoming Language Barriers Recognizing the linguistic diversity of India, where dialects change every 100 kilometers, we partnered with community radio stations across Uttarakhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and Himachal Pradesh. This collaboration enabled us to reach over 350,000 people, with women comprising more than 50% of our audience. This prestigious award was achieved in partnership with 90.8 FM Radio Mayur, Bihar. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to them and our listeners for making this success possible. This recognition inspires us to continue our mission of promoting digital safety and security. We invite you to: 📻 Tune in to our show ☎ Contact our helpline at 080 4568 5001 for advice on digital safety and security 📣 Spread the word about TechSakhi Here's to a safer digital world! Image description: Colorful graphic announcing "Tech Sakhi" winning the National Community Radio Award. Features a blue logo, pink "WINS" text, and details about the first prize win in the thematic category. Includes a bright cartoon radio icon. Background is light yellow-green with text in English and Hindi.

We're stoked to have our very own Megha Garg represent us at Digital Futures Lab' first cohort of the Responsible AI Lab Fellowship! At Point of View, Megha works with TechSakhi (our multilingual digital safety helpline) to amplify information on digital security, online gender-based violence and make redressal mechanisms accessible across India. Watch this space for more key insights and learnings as we explore #ArtificialIntelligence from an intersectional lens: 💡 How do the intersections of gender and sexuality influence the way we access and experience AI? 💡How do we make AI accessible across intersections? 💡How do we design AI that is feminist?

While the advancement of digital technologies has created new opportunities for innovation and empowerment, it has also amplified existing inequities and introduced new types of gendered harms. Basic issues such as access and safety for women and girls continue to persist, along with newer digital gender-based violence and harms. Advancing the digital rights of women, girls, and gender and sexual minorities, and building gender-equitable societies therefore, require a collaborative and coordinated effort across policy, research, and grassroots organisations. To deliberate on pathways towards gender-equitable digital futures, Digital Futures Lab and Point of View recently hosted an unconference, Feminist Futures Now, that brought together activists, organisations, and experts working with women and girls, queer and trans communities, sex workers, persons with disabilities, and in the tech, digital rights and policy space. Together, we're working towards a more inclusive and equitable digital future. Join us in the conversation, and share your thoughts on how we can bridge the digital divide and address gendered harms. Chambal Media Sadbhavana Trust CREA Rangeen Khidki Foundation One Future Collective Centre for Internet and Society Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT) Sappho for Equality Rising Flame Tattle Civic Technologies National Network of Sex Workers, India Mahila Jan Adhikar Samiti, Ajmer American Jewish World Service (AJWS) Harshita Verma Hameeda Khatoon Athira Purushothaman Sanjina Gupta Amrita Sengupta (she/her) Gayatri Buragohain Koyel Ghosh Kaustubha K. Chinar Mehta Manjima Bhattacharjya Anushka Jain Urvashi Aneja Shreeja S. #digitalrights #genderequity #feministfutures #techpolicy #inclusion #FeministFuturesNow #DigitalFuturesLab #unconference

We're still #Hiring! 📩 If you have experience with #Communications and #WebDesign, apply to join our Storybeings team as a consultant! Together, we will build a one-of-a-kind digital archive of stories by young girls, women, and queer folks. Read through the job description for more details! 👇

🚨 Urgent #Hiring: HR Manager at Point of View 🚨 This is a critical role for our organization, and we're looking to fill it quickly. If you meet these criteria and are passionate about driving organizational growth, we want to hear from you today! #HR #HumanResources #HRmanager #HiringNow

As we gear up for Season 3 of The Digital Everyday, we wanted to extend a huge thank you to all who applied to join our global community exploring the intersections of Bodies, Technologies & Social Justice! To our incoming participants: We look forward to embarking on this transformative journey with you. Together, we'll examine how technology shapes our world through a South Asian lens and imagine feminist futures filled with hope. Stay tuned as we prepare to launch this unique learning experience. We hope you enjoy this journey as much as we enjoyed designing it with Design Beku and Digital Narratives Studio! #TheDigitalEveryday #FeministTechnology #SocialJustice Nishant Shah Padmini Ray Murray Image: A vibrant promotional graphic for The Digital Everyday program, featuring a message of gratitude to applicants and excitement for the upcoming feminist tech exploration.

Padmini Ray Murray (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is a Course Designer and Knowledge Partner at The Digital Everyday, a role to which she brings her experience of creating alternative digital spaces that challenge infrastructural and algorithmic violence. As a feminist researcher and maker, she interrogates harmful and worn design practices and invites us to think about more just ways of creating and co-creating. In TDE she unpacks what a feminist media praxis can look like, particularly in the context of AI, digital safety, archives, maps, and platforms such as Wikipedia. In 2018 Padmini founded Design Beku: a collective of researchers, technologists and designers who work towards making design and digital practice more locally rooted, contextually relevant and ethical. She also established the first degree-level digital humanities programme in India at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. As a creative practitioner, Padmini creates new media work which reflects her research and interests, such as Darshan Diversion, a feminist videogame about the Sabarimala temple controversy; Visualising Cybersecurity (with Paulanthony George & CIS, 2019) about how cybersecurity is represented in the media; On Affecting the Archive (as the artist in residence at Serendipity Arts Festival, 2020). In 2021 she curated Smarter Digital Realities, working with 21 residents from India and Bangladesh about technology and the city, and performing Abhi.Neta Aayenge (as part of Last Seen). For more of Padmini’s work: 💡 Read an interview of Padmini in the Digital Spaces and Sexuality issue of In Plainspeak: https://lnkd.in/g_63t7re 💡 Read the article “‘Feminist’ Server to Help People Own Their Own Data” to learn more about Design Beku’s work on co-creating digital infrastructure with local communities: https://lnkd.in/gukn2JaU 💡 Read about and play “Gathering Multitudes: A bag of stars”, an interactive 3D essay: https://lnkd.in/gVDQFiqR Image description: This image is a promotional graphic introducing a knowledge partner. The background is a deep teal color with a grid pattern overlay, giving it a digital or technological feel. The top of the image reads "MEET OUR KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS!" in yellow text. Below this, the main focus is on Dr. Padmini Ray Murray. Her name is displayed prominently in white text, along with her title "Course Designer, The Digital Everyday". A black and white portrait photo of Dr. Murray is featured. She appears to be smiling warmly at the camera, wearing earrings and with her hair styled casually. A text box below her photo provides additional information: "Dr. Padmini Ray Murray is a feminist researcher, maker, and the founder of Design Beku."