Developed by Paradigm Initiative (PIN) with the support of Stanford Digital Society Lab and the Kingdom of Netherlands, amongst other partners, the toolkit’s overarching aim is to address the growing need to safeguard digital rights defenders, journalists, whistle blowers, and others working with sensitive information in the global South.

01/05/2020

This World YWCA toolkit provides guidance and answers regarding safe spaces and their implementation.

01/05/2020

In collaboration with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Public Foundation for Support and Development of National Mass Media of Uzbekistan, RNTC curated this infodemic toolkit in order to help journalists successfully report on the COVID-19 crisis. The project was brought about due to the rise in dis-, mis-, and malinformation during the crisis, and aims to provide anyone with the tools to improve one's understanding on this topic.

01/05/2020

A World YWCA virtual safe space provides an environment online and/or offline that encourages all people present to share experiences, opinions, and views without fear or threat of political, economic or personal harm. Discover this explanatory video.

30/06/2020

This knowledge brief showcases RNW Media's experience with online community moderation, presenting definitions, research take-aways, and sharing insights.

01/08/2020

This study responds to a need for research in a fast-growing and significant area of study, that of exploring, understanding and documenting the numerous ways that multiply marginalized LGBTQ youth use social media as part of their everyday experiences in an attempt to safely navigate their lives through learning, participating, engaging, communicating and constructing identities in digital spaces. The research question examined whether digital spaces, such as Facebook, provide safe spaces for multiply minoritized LGBTQ youth to express and explore issues of sexuality and gender.

01/04/2017

On 4 November 2020, during the Internet Governance Forum 2020, UN Women, The World Wide Web Foundation, and IT for Change co-organized a round table discussion with tech companies and civil society organisations. It provided a space for dialogue for shared reflection between tech companies and civil society organizations on creating a multi-stakeholder strategy to counter online gender-based violence (OGBV), accounting for its diverse forms and manifestations across contexts.

20/11/2020

An article by Keda Edwards Pierre, CEO of True II Soul, a network focused on trauma recovery, diversity & inclusion and resiliency training.

04/09/2020

In GBV programming, safe spaces for women and girls have been established as a key approach of reaching adolescent girls and providing them with access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SHR) information, links to services, skill-building, peer connection, and support. Yet, access to physical safe spaces is often limited for adolescent girls because of security concerns, gender norms, and domestic responsibilities. UNICEF has been developing a platform to act as a virtual safe space for adolescent girls to access gender-based violence information.

13/07/2020

How do moderation policies affect online discussion? This article analyses nearly a quarter of a million anonymous comments over a 14-month period from two online Reddit forums matched in topic and size, but with differing moderation policies of “safe space” and “free speech.” The results suggest that differences in moderation policies may affect self-censorship and language use in online space, implicating moderation policies as key sites of inquiry for scholars of democratic discussion.

01/03/2019

Get Safe Online is the UK’s leading source of unbiased, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety.

03/06/2021

RNW's moderation strategies are based on choices about how they want their online communities to interact and encouraging positive behaviours that result in safe, inclusive spaces where young people can speak freely. This blog post dives deeper this topic.

01/06/2021

Habari RDC is a RNW Media project in the DRC which promotes civic and political awareness. Acting as a ‘voice’ for Congolese youth, it encourages freedom of speech on a variety of topics, even the most sensitive ones. Habari RDC is an independent platform with all of its content (articles, videos, info graphs, photographs) produced by young bloggers and change makers from all across the country. As per its slogan, the platform strives to offer its community a “diversity of opinions”!

01/03/2017