Facebook has launched a global campaign against bullying of women as a way of boosting their online safety, and launched the first of its global meetings in February 2016 in Kenya. Other meetings are set to take place in Ireland, the Middle East, India and the USA. “Facebook is an important way for people in Africa to connect and share and we are committed to working with our partners to ensure our community, especially women, feel safe when they use our platform,” said Facebook’s Head of Public Policy Africa Ebele Okobi. This meeting in Africa was attended by women from NGOs, academia, women’s rights groups and safety organisations. Thirty organisations were represented at the roundtable in Nairobi among them S.K.I.R.T.S. (Socially Keen Individuals Redefining Tech Spaces, Women in Tech Africa, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), Her Zimbabwe, Digital Ubuntu, Hivos East Africa, Coalition On Violence Against Women (COVAW) and Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET). Others were drawn from UN Habitat, iHub, NEST, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Roshani Consultancy Services, Si Jeunesse Savait (SJS), Spinlet, Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), Research ICT Africa (RIA), Botswana Information Technology Society (BITS), International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT). Malawi was represented by Misa , Isis Women International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE), with Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)-Zambia Chapter, Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK), Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), OpenNet Africa initiative, Akili Dada, FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund and Safaricom. African countries represented included Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, and Zambia. The roundtable coincided with Safer Internet Day 9 February 2016 Story from Daily Nation (Kenya) Story from The Lead (Nigeria)