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| Colbert Gwain -CEO A Common Future – vision casting in a bus with journalists |
The campaign seeks to uphold and
respect the rights of women online, particularly on the social media,
where various forms of abuses continue to be perpetrated against the
girl child and women in general.
Colbert Gwain, CEO of A Common
Future explaining the concept to journalists in Bamenda on Tuesday, July
31, in a “vision casting” held in a bus that was used to transport them
across Bamenda’s major streets said “we intend to encourage and
increase the active participation of women and girls online without
harassment”
The project he added “seeks to promote a feminist Internet where women’s voices are not only heard but respected”
The campaign falls under the canopy
of what he terms “Internet Freedom Festival Cameroon” which globally
looks for innovative e ways of challenging women’s exclusion from online
spaces and bolster their rights to freedom of expression.
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| Journalists taking part in the Vision Casting tour |
The campaign has identified privacy
violations, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure and vulgar
images as forms of violation of women’s rights online. The campaign will
use film projections, discussions and exchanges by some selected
educators in inter-urban transport buses to drive its message across. It
also intends to use the upcoming presidential elections campaign to
lobby the candidates who have all formulated the use of the social media
into their campaign to promise the protection of internet users after
the poll.
The vision-casting tour was broadcast live on the internet on the www.bamendaonline.net Facebook page, including part of the question and answer session that was part of the event.
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