Introducing Myself

Digital empowerment is the way to go at this error. The world has been converted into a global village due to advancement in technology. Today traditional form of communication is diminishing slowly, people have gone digital starting with education, business, conference, health and so on; so why will I like to remain analogue while other are advancing? Research has shown countries which embrace technology have performed well in their economy so personally I would advocate digital empowerment for women in our society and country as a whole. I came to learn the world pulse when I was so thirsty and looking for trainings and courses that talks about issues of women globally online. I felt I was lacking something and I thought that if I can get a platform to share my thought, be inspired and motivated, I can also transform somebody is life through positive stories and that’s how I joined it. On this article, I would like to share the status of Kenya in Violence against women and women empowerment. Personally i do agree with the say that “If you educate a woman, you educate the whole society “so telling positive stories and motivate women to come up with the initiative, be independent and know their rights is the important factor. Of late in Kenya, we have witness an increase of cases of Gender based violence; both physical and technological violence. Study has shown that there has been a big shift from physical violence to technological where woman are the victim. But why is this happening? The constitution of Kenya has no clear laws that touches on Technological Violence against women (Tech VAW) and that’s why the culprits are taking the advantage. Many women are shy to share the abuse they have received from social media platform hence most of them have undergone psychological tremor and end up quitting from using social media platforms. So my appeal is to encourage my fellow women who have been the victim of Tech VAW abuse to be strong, seek justice, learn to be safe online, lobby the law maker to come up the Tech VAW laws, sensitize the women about their right, sensitize the law makers on importance of Tech VAW cases and how to handle them and have posters on every police station that not only educate the society but also inform them that abusing a person on social media platform is a crime; be it hacking somebody’s account, posting nude photos, or any other offense that interfere with somebody’s privacy.