About
Cabsi La'aan was designed and developed by Digital Shelter and Data4Change.
In December 2020, Digital Shelter carried out a crowdsourcing survey asking Somali women to share their experiences of online shame, harassment and abuse.
82 women responded with stories ranging from having accounts hacked, to receiving indecent images from men and even blackmail.
In order to raise awareness about the issue, while protecting the privacy of the women, Digital Shelter commissioned Zahra Abdihagi Mahamed, to write a poem inspired by the women’s stories.
Digital Shelter is a local initiative advocating for greater digital safety, rights and inclusion in Somalia.
Digital Shelter is among 13 civil society organisations who were successful in applying for the African Digital Rights Fund run by CIPESA (Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa). The African Digital Rights Fund included the opportunity to receive data skills training and work on data-driven projects with Data4Change.
Data4Change is a UK-based non-profit who create data-driven projects aimed at solving some of the world’s most pressing social and political challenges.
Team
Here is the team behind Cabsi La'aan. We worked on this project together from five different countries, entirely remotely!
Abdifatah Hassan Ali
Co-Founder of Digital Shelter, Somalia
Abdifatah Ali Mohamud
Director of ICT Programs at Digital Shelter, Somalia
Ayan Khalif Abdi
Co-Founder of Digital Shelter, Somalia
Joachim Mangilima
Data analyst, Tanzania
Reem El Sayed Samy
Designer, Egypt
Loren Riesenfeld
Developer, United States
Elric Wamugu
Development support, Kenya
Emma Laura Namwanje Kisa
Data Journalist, Kenya
Henar Khater
Data Viz Designer, Egypt
Zahra Abdihagi Mahamed
Poet and Storyteller, Somalia