Volume 13, Number 3

The Internet of Peace: Unpacking the Gender-IoT-peacebuilding Nexus in Sudan and Colombia

  Authors

Dudziro Nhengu, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

  Introduction

This research explored the linkages between gender, internet of things and peacebuilding in conflict and in peace times. A desk review of literature and a case analysis of two countries, Sudan and Colombia, were utilised to collect data for the study. The Feminist Techno-science Framework was applied to the study, to analyse how technologies can be used and designed to promote inclusive social justice and peace and it assesses how women’s experiences and perspectives can inform and shape technological innovation and draws the marginalised to the centre of peacebuilding action. The study concluded that inclusive usage of IoT advances the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda by providing opportunities for women's participation in peacebuilding processes, enhancing their social, economic, political, and environmental engagement, provided that operating legal frameworks for ICT usage are gender inclusive.

  Keywords

Network Protocols, Wireless Network, Mobile Network, Virus, Worms & Trojon