The entity participated in the meeting in La Laguna with the organisation of Canarias Ahora and the collaboration of the City Council
The Opciónate Association participated in the meeting ‘#WomenConnected: Strategies against Cybermachismo’ held in La Laguna (Tenerife) with the organisation of Canarias Ahora and the collaboration of the Department of Social Welfare and Quality of Life of the City Council of La Laguna.
The director of Opciónate, Ana Lidia Fernández-Layos, took part in a round table discussion which gave her the opportunity to present the work carried out by the organisation and to share examples, conclusions and proposals from the experience of the main projects carried out in the field of cyber-equality and the prevention of male chauvinist cyber-violence.
Opciónate explained its work as manager of the Gran Canaria Island Service for the Prevention of and attention to gender-based cyber-violence, financed by the Cabildo of this island, as well as the awareness-raising and training actions on digital ethics and cyber-citizenship and the research with primary schools underway in collaboration with the University of Deusto.
The event took place on 17 June at the El Tranvía Citizen Centre in La Laguna, with the aim of analysing and finding tools to address the violence to which women are exposed online, and the colloquium was also attended by Nira Santana, an expert in gender and video games and researcher at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC); and Ceci Wallace, digital creator and influencer. The talk was moderated by Canarias Ahora journalist Natalia G. Vargas.
Among the topics addressed in the colloquium were the exposure of women in social networks and video games, the aesthetic violence that is exercised on them directly and indirectly through social networks, the tools that people need in order not to suffer the negative consequences of social networks and the Internet world, and how to prevent cyber-macho crimes that occur online such as grooming, sextortion or deepfakes, among others.
The day began with a workshop given by the communicator Nadia Martín under the title ‘Prevention of sexist cyber-violence, hate speech and disinformation on the internet’. She shared literature, didactic tools and strategies for an egalitarian, positive and violence-free use of technology.
The Tenerife-born singer committed to equality and human rights Mel Ömana put the musical finishing touch to the meeting with her lyrics and melodies. The meeting held its second edition in La Laguna, after its premiere in Gran Canaria on 21 March.
