Attendee Procedure for Handling Harassment

This procedure has been adopted from the Ada Initiative's guide titled “Conference anti-harassment/Responding to Reports”.

  1. All conference staff and programme committee members will be wearing a badge with the word “CREW” on it. The crew will be prepared to handle the incident. Our crew members are informed of the code of conduct policy and guide for handling harassment at the conference. There will be a mandatory crew meeting onsite at the conference when this will be reiterated.

  2. Report the harassment incident to a crew member. All reports will remain confidential. A written or emailed report is preferred as it will record the facts for later reference.

    When reporting the event to the crew, try to gather as much information as available, but do not interview people about the incident.

    The important information consists of:

    • Identifying information (name) of the participant doing the harassing
    • The behaviour that was in violation
    • The approximate time of the behaviour (if different than the time the report was made)
    • The circumstances surrounding the incident
    • Other people involved in the incident

    Crew members will assist you in wrting the report. They are well informed on how to deal with the incident and how to proceed further.

  3. Involve police only at a victim's request.

A listing of The Fifth Elephant organizers and HasGeek staff is located here, including contact phone numbers. If possible, all reports should be made directly to Zainab Bawa (Lead Organizer) or HasGeek