On Friday, May 16, the Barcelona Open Data Initiative organized the fifth International Data Feminism Conference at La CIBA , the resource space for women, innovation and the feminist economy in the town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Under the title 'Feminist strategies against disinformation and digital sexist violence', the meeting wanted to highlight the great potential of data technologies for the defense of women's rights and focused on the main challenges of the feminist agenda around the evolution of these data technologies. The event, which began with the institutional welcome by the mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Mireia González, had three round tables that brought together a dozen women experts from the academic, professional and institutional fields. Specifically, the first round table focused on disinformation and hate speech led by Yolanda Domínguez, communications and equality advisor, and Ares Biescas, journalist and coordinator of the Verified Debates. The second round table then discussed digital violence against women led by Diana Morena-Balaguer, head of gender and diversity projects at LaGroc, Silvia Semenzin, researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Ana Polo, journalist and comedian, and Inma Moraleda, mayoral advisor at the Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council. The round table focused on the profile of aggressors, mainly those who monetize hate speech, and highlighted the need to provide a collective response to these situations and to establish strategies to deal with them within the digital and analog world.
Finally, the third round table of the fifth International Data Feminism Conference shared numerous feminist strategies against digital violence against women with Cristina Ubani, advisor and researcher, Montserrat Boix, journalist and coordinator of Mujeres en Red, Lourdes Muñoz, co-founder of Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data, and Cristina Vargas, member of the Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council.