How to create safe spaces for women in México

Yeah, I know this should be in spanish, but I will do it in english and then another article talking about this in spanish.

Few months ago, a group of enthuasiastic mozillians, founded first Mexico’s Mozclub for México City.

Mozclubs, are educational groups that love teaching how to write, read and participate on the web. You can find more info here.

As part of some curriculum trainings we were planning for the start, we found more important to be primarily focused on digital gender gap.

While digital gender gap is quiteee a topic, we listed some main uses we could locally identify: women are less related with computers because of social problems, a sense of lack in security and not having access to the appropriate educational tools with gender perspective.

We developed a curriculum workshop just for women, so they could understand they limitations and help us understand better, how to create safe spaces together but, also, create the correct tools for educational issues here in México.

We started our first training with the help of Wayra México, Telefónica Open Future_ #Womensage program, UN Women México and Empower Women.

The program integrated the following content:

Día 1

• 8:30- 9:00 — Llegada
• 9:00–9:15 — Bienvenida e introducción
• 9:15–9:30 — ¿Qué es Mozilla? ¿Qué es Womoz? ¿Qué son los Mozilla Clubs? ¿Qué es ONU MUJERES? ¿Qué es empower women? Y temas de empoderamiento femenino en la web
• 9:30–9:50 — Espectograma
• 9:50–10:30 — Alfabetización y cultura digital
• 10:30–11:30 — Actividad #1, aprender a leer la web
• 11:30–12:30 — Actividad #2, enseñar la web
• 12:30–1:00 — Break
• 1:00–1:45 — Actividad #3 ¿Cómo participar en la web?
• 1:45–2:00 Cierre

Día 2

• 8:30- 9:00 — Llegada
• 9:00–9:15 — Bienvenida e introducción
• 9:15–9:30 — Recapitulación
• 9:30–9:50 — Comprendiendo las problemáticas locales para accesar a la web
• 9:50–10:30 — ¿Cómo enseñamos la web a niñas y mujeres?
• 10:30–11:30 — Herramientas de trabajo (Thimble)
• 11:30–12:30 — Discusión y micrófono abierto
• 12:30–1:00 — Break
• 1:00–1:45 — Hackeando problemáticas locales con X-Ray Goggles
• 1:45–2:00 Cierre

The most amazing excercise we did was the spectogram, in which we collected a lot of information about how women feel about the web.

Both days were full of learning, interesting information and, of course, we took a lot of homework to improve the next exercises for working more specifically the problems we knew, but we needed to hear the words from other mexican women.

We’ve planned 3 more trainings like these for 2017 so keep tunned and help us build a free and safe web!