Digital technology and violence against girls and women with disabilities in low-and middle-income countries: risks and resources for resilience

Digital technologies offer increased access to valuable information and powerful communities of support that can protect and resource disabled women globally. However, without adequate support, disabled women may experience increased manipulation and violence in online environments, particularly in contexts where digital literacy is low and government regulation is not strong. In this chapter, we begin by describing how access to digital technologies has improved participation and inclusion for some people with disabilities. We then detail the nature of technology-facilitated violence and a range of its common forms to date, reflecting on differing patterns produced at the intersection of disability, gender, and varying geographical contexts. Finally, we discuss approaches to preventing and combatting violence, consider their adaptability to the design and delivery of interventions for the prevention of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls with disabilities, and argue for the importance of context specificity in any such programming.