African Developers, Lawmakers and Civil Society Are Partnering With Women to Embed Safety Into Digital Platforms From the Ground Up, With the Aim of Preventing Tech-Driven Gender Violence Before It Begins.
Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…