One in four women in Kenya has experienced online abuse. That number comes straight from a new national survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, and it lands hard, putting hard data behind what many Kenyan women have been saying for years.
The survey frames the problem as technology-facilitated gender-based violence, a category that covers the many ways digital tools and online spaces are used to harm, harass, and silence women. The findings bring Kenya into a wider continental conversation about how the internet, for all its promise, has become another arena where gender-based violence plays out.
What the KNBS survey makes clear is that this is not a niche or fringe issue. When one in four women is affected, it touches families, workplaces, and communities across the country. The question now is what policymakers, platforms, and communities will actually do with this data.
Originally published by AllAfrica.