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So, what can we do? Here are just a few ideas:• Use a human rights approach to advancing andmaintaining women’s interests and presence inthe digital sphere.• Keep a very close watching brief on policy andlaws related to the digital sphere and fully engagein policy discussions.• Engage with the new agency to ensure it takesan enabling approach to the internet as a spaceof transformation and power for women, ratherthan a protectionist approach.• Ensure women’s rights defenders are appointedto the new agency and recommend gender auditsand analysis of complaints.• Advocate for a model of ethical digital citizenship,including ethical relationships.• Advocate for the promulgation of digital literacyskills, including the ability to understand howthe digital world influences individuals themselvesand others.• Become a digital bystander: intervene in onlineconversation to prevent the perpetuation of genderedideas and comments.• Form a digital bystander group, develop sharedpeer norms, and express online support for ethicaluse of digital communications. ■• Consider the use of social media, including theuse of hashtags, for reporting perpetrators ofviolence online – deal with violence in situ.182 / Global Information Society Watch