Spaces for dialogue and design: Imagining security futures with female social leaders and conflict victims in Cauca, Colombia


Contributor(s)

Jessica McClearn


Session

Cryptography and Privacy for the People


Abstract

Female social leaders and conflict victims in Colombia experience digital and ontological security concerns when accessing, and sharing information. By engaging with female victims and social leaders who create spaces for dialogue in Popayán, Colombia we can understand security and privacy possibilities with these populations through observing their daily practices and experiences in context. This research uses ethnographic methods to work collaboratively with participants to understand how security technologies and experiences of privacy are intertwined with gender, trauma and legacies of conflict for those in the margins. My research utilizes positive security and assets based design perspectives to consider opportunities to design for desirable futures instead of designing from adversarial threats, or a point of need.


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