Jac sm Kee (born 1976,

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) is a feminist activist, writer and researcher from Malaysia. She led the

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Women's Rights Programme, which works to address online violence against women, advocates for feminist digital security, supports research on the intersection of digital technology and gender justice, and facilitates network and movement building on feminism and technology. Jac sm Kee led the team that facilitated the development of the collectively drafted Feminist Principles of the Internet – a set of principles that outline the critical approach and issues that need to be considered in engaging and development of technology towards an ending of discrimination. She has conducted pioneering research that linked issues of internet governance, censorship, privacy, women's rights and sexuality. She is one of the founders of the global and collaborative

Take Back the Tech! Take Back The Tech is a collaborative global campaign that connects the issue of violence against women and information and communications technology (ICT). It aims to raise awareness on the way violence against women is occurring on ICT platform ...

campaign, which aims to combat digital gender violence by supporting and empowering women to take back control of technology. Jac sm Kee also co-founded Malaysia Design Archive together with Ezrena Marwan, a platform and initiative to trace and document Malaysia's visual history. In 2020, she co-founded Numun Fund, the first feminist tech fund for and from the Global South or "Larger World".

Recognition

She is a selected winner of the

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Prize "for her struggle for women’s right to a free online environment and for an open and equal information society based on the potential of the internet."

References

External links

Jac sm kee on Twitter

Articles on GenderIT

Internet Governance Forum profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kee, Jac sm 1976 births Living people Malaysian feminists 21st-century Malaysian women writers Malaysian people of Chinese descent Writers from Kuala Lumpur