Technology is something we feel very strongly about! The relationship between women and technology in India has not been documented or studied very closely, and this worries us.
From the urban professional space to a semi-rural household, we have almost no figures that inform us how women are using technology or being introduced to it. A gender and class bias that prevails ensures that most women and girls are almost never trained to use technology or even introduced to a very simple-level engagement with it. This is despite the fact that most women will use technological implements throughout their lives or have them affect their lives in ways which they have no control over.
At FAT we try and address this lag in our own way, through workshops, awareness programs, skill-building sessions for different groups of women (in professional spaces, unemployed women, semi-educated women) with the belief that even this small knowledge will give them a capacity to make positive changes in their own lives and the lives of those around them.