The Cyber-quilting Experiment: A Network of Women of Color Stitching Together a New Media Movement in Web 2.0 and Beyond.

The presentation & group discussion will explain what Cyberquiliting is: From training women of color organizations on how to use multi-video conferencing technologies to hosting multiple city rallies to end violence against women, holding online tutorials on how activists can use Google documents to assist with administrative work and more.

The Cyberquilting Experiment is responding to the new and old realities affecting activist’s lives (i.e.: stretched resources, the prevalence of violence, the emergence of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the need to connect, etc.). In particular, we will show how quilters will receive the cyber tools, internet training, and hardware needed to bring about radical social change within their local communities by connecting through Cyberquilting’s website and Cyberquilting Skill Share Workshops with organizations, groups, and individual activists.