Public and Policy Engagement
Femtech: Knowledge Repository
1. Workshop Station and Panel Discussion at the Vagina Museum (July 2024)
Members of the AGENCY Research team presented their work on gender and cybersecurity, online privacy, safety and trust in AI/ML, and digital health and medical technologies at an event organized by bleepDigital and hosted by the Vagina Museum in London. Link to the blog post is provided here.
2. Policy Brief: ‘Rethinking the Regulations of digital Contraception’ (Sept 2023)
We participated, presented, and contributed to an extensive policy brief document; Empowerment, responsibility, and risk: ‘Rethinking the Regulations of digital contraception. With a focus on FemTech security and privacy, we discussed the regulatory aspects, alongside a team of experts across disciplines. This document is publicly available in here.
3. White paper on Towards a Research Agenda: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Online (Apr 2023)
Our FemTech case study contributed to a report on this topic, including the related work, with a set of recommendations based on the literature provided by the REPHRAIN researchers. They include: defining and measuring online harms, understanding perpetrators, developing public services, policies and standards, co-designing safer technologies, and improving the police practice and the justice system. The report concludes with a section on Policy Recommendations. The open access paper is available here.