Toolkits: Gender-Just Digital Innovation Design

Work in the field of digital development has often been carried out without sufficient attention to gender justice. Indeed, where researchers or practitioners have been sensitive to gender, this has often only extended to “counting women” - gathering data on how many participants of which gender participated in their interventions. Researchers from the GeJuSTA (Gender Justice in STEM research in Africa) project worked together with women and women’s rights activists in South Africa and Uganda to co-produce conceptually advanced yet practical toolkits for researchers and practitioners in our field: (1) To deepen their gender analysis and improve their understanding of the barriers women and other disadvantaged groups face when seeking to engage with digital innovation (Gender Analysis Toolkit) and (2) To engage women and other disadvantaged groups actively in the co-design on digital innovations (Gender-Just Co-Design Toolkit). We present the the toolkits as Open Access and freely available references for research, policy and practice.