Towards a Systemic Risk Literacy for Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Regulators worldwide increasingly seek to mitigate the harms associated with online spaces. To comply with these regulations, platforms are being required to perform systemic risk assessments around online content and conduct for the first time. Doing so requires bridging foundational research understanding online harm with practical knowledge of how platforms and policymakers can assess the risk of harm in practice: what we call systemic risk literacy. 

We argue that systemic risk literacy is under-studied --- hampering our ability to create the effective and data-driven risk assessments that we need to ensure digital safety. Tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is a valuable starting point for creating systemic risk literacies: the harms of TFGBV are urgent, and there already exist robust ecosystems of science and legislation around TFGBV worldwide.

A one-day workshop