If social responsibility and women empowerment interests you, I’d like to welcome you to join me in a week long Twitter curation with Safecity @pinthecreep from January 28 to February 3. If you are involved in this field or know any organizations related to this field, please share and we will spread the word! Don’t forget to follow the host @pinthecreep.
Featured topics for the week:
- Jan 28th: Socially responsible fashion
- Jan 29th: Social responsible investing (SRI)
- Jan 30th: Socially responsible tourism
- Jan 31st: Leadership in the social responsibility space
- Feb 1st: Socially responsible businesses
- Feb 2nd: Twitter chat
- Feb 3rd: Closing the week
Twitter chat – 2nd Feb – Mark your calendar!
The week will end in a Twitter chat focusing of Social Responsibility & Women Empowerment. Our guest of honor will be Vasu Primlani. Vasu Primlani is many things. She is a standup comedian, professor, triathlete, and- a somatic therapist. She has received over a dozen international awards for her work, her latest being the highest award given by the president of India to a woman – the Nari Shakti award. She specializes in preventing rape, the authentic self, and does somatic therapy for survivors and rapists alike. Follow hashtag #Safecitychat on Twitter to participate in the chat on February 2nd 9PM-10PM IST.
If you have never participated in a chat on Twitter.com before, you must know that on Twitter chats you can share ideas and also make new connections. Follow the steps below if you are newbie to not just Twitter chats:
- You need to have an account on Twitter.com.
- Follow @pinthecreep and @anujasaw.
- This discussion will run between January 28 to February 3, so make sure you keep a close eye on these two Twitter accounts to receive the latest updates and to participate in the discussion.
- Follow hashtag #Safecitychat for the Twitter chat on 2nd February, 9PM – 10PM IST.
Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. You can also see this Twitter Guide if you are new to Twitter.
To know how we did it in the past, here are the links to previous Safecity curations:
- Women’s role in Environmental Education
- Achieving SDG11 targets for Safe and Sustainable Cities
- Rethinking urban transportation systems
In the past, with Safecity, I’ve engaged people on the intersection of Environment, Women’s Safety, Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Twitter on:
- Women’s role in Environmental Education
- Achieving SDG11 targets for Safe and Sustainable Cities
- Rethinking urban transportation systems
- Omission of women in urban planning
- Anti street harassment
- Safety in 100 smart cities of India
- Safe cycling in Indian cities
I’ve also developed educational material for Safecity on sanitation and hygiene for girls of age group 12-15 years.
About Safecity:
Safecity (registered under Red Dot Foundation) is a platform, founded in 2012, that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behavior that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions.
Last edited: January 23 2018. Date for SRI and Tourism swapped.
