How can activists and NGOs benefit from new media? Prague, July 12/2007
Dec 30, 2015
How can activists and NGOs benefit from new media?
Prague, July 12/2007
How can activists benefit from new media? Part 1
1. Improve access/quality of information2. Attract public attention to a particular
problem3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data
with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing)4. Establish direct contact with
politicians/constituencies
How can activists benefit from new media? Part 2
5. Improve outreach/attract new members6. Mobilize the movement and help with
logistics7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising
and collective action8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs
and activists
1. Improve access/quality of information
Examples: • OpenCongress• CongressPedia• Интерактивная система народного контроля• TheyWorkForYou.com• Witness/GV Witness• ChicagoCrime• Real Costs
2. Attract public attention to a particular problem
Examples: • Wikileaks• OpenSecrets• Maplight.org• Congressional Family Business• Earmarks/Sunlight• Unfluence
3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing)
Examples: • PorkBusters.org/earmarks• TPM Muckraker/attorneys• What’s Mich McConnel hiding?• dKospedia• Offthebus.net• Congressional web-site oversight• Eyes on Darfur
4. Establish direct contact with politicians/constituencies
Examples: • E-petitions/UK government• HearFromYourMp.com• Politicopia• PrezVid/Choose08 on YouTube• TechPresident
PREZVID
5. Improve outreach/attract new members
Examples: • Treehugger.com• WorldChanging• Eyes on Darfur• Barack Obama’s web-site
6. Mobilize the movement and help with logistics
• Примеры: • Meetup• Upcoming• Eventful• MySpace campaigns
7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising and collective action
Examples: • PledgeBank• Fixmystreet• Kivo• Dotherightthing• Freepledge• Webgazeta.org
SOME PM/WIKI TOOLS
8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs and activists
Examples: • Swivel• Gapminder• Connotea• That academic youtube?
Страны, где доступ к YouTube запрещен или ограничен