"Subclassing and Composition – A Pythonic Tour of Trade-Offs", Hynek Schlawack
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1. USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO
IMPROVE LIVES OF
POORER IN COMMUNITIES
with examples from BROSDI
by
Karamagi Ednah
Executive Director, BROSDI
2. Presentation Trend …
• A little on “Social Media” &
“BROSDI”
• Approach from the angle: “if we were
asked to use social media to
implement/design a project, this are
points we would take seriously into
consideration”
• Share examples of “how we are
using social media”
• Sharing some success stories from
BROSDI
4. • Who? What? Is BROSDI?
Busoga
Rural
Open Source & Development Initiative
• Focus Areas
• Target rural household communities
• We use ICT
• Knowledge sharing &information
management
• Empower target group
• Adopt the OSDI approach
5. • BROSDI works closely with : -
• Government
• Civil society
• Private sector
• Programs
• Education, Health and Agriculture
7. • Social Media includes web-based and mobile
based technologies which are used to turn
communication into interactive dialogue
between organizations, communities, and
individuals
... Wikipedia
• Social media can include text, audio, video,
images, podcasts, and other multimedia
communications. Common examples are: -
• Blogs
• You tube
• Facebook, Linked In
• Twitter
• D groups and more…
8. Using Social Media …
For the case of using Social Media, it can
be used in two main stages: -
• Direct stage
• Use social media applications directly e.g.
blogging directly
• Secondary stage
• First use one method then social media
as the second stage e.g. capture an
activity, edit it then upload to You Tube
• First use more than one method then use
social media as the third party e.g.
mobilize and conduct a farmers forum,
document the knowledge shared using
text, voice and audio, transform these into
an article using a computer, then upload
on your Facebook page
9. Points we would take into
consideration when using social
media for rural projects …
10. • Take the “listening chair” and not the
“instructing chair”
• Be well equipped with the a variety of
social media options
• Do not drown in the Social Media Pool
• Presence of content
• Be flexible
• Use other applications and at some point
incorporate social media
• Slowly but surely let go of an application
that is not reaping results
• Need access to the internet
11. • Need electricity
• For the computers
• To charge the gadgets
• Late night working
• For other related activities e.g. typing the articles,
editing the photos before upload
• Train the group and give extra to one most
educated and/or interested member: -
• who will step in your shoes when you go
• To use added applications like Skype for future
communication. Use mobile phone for this
• Do not impose methods RATHER teach them the
method and let their minds flow
• Be patient … very patient
• Believe in yourself , be positive & confident,
respond positively to negative reactions
• Effective & Efficient internal communication
13. 1. For administration purposes
• Yammer,
• Pbworks
• Google Docs
• Skype and Yahoo Chat
• Mikogo
• Team viewer
• Facebook
• as a stress suppressant
• For added team building and
strengthnening
14. 2. For collecting information
• Google
• Skype (more of clarification of
content)
• Over 95% of our content in the Agriculture project is
collected from Monthly Farmers Forums
• All our health generated content is from the
students and responding volunteers
• All the education generated content is from the
orphan children themselves
15. 3. For disseminating content
• Blogs
• Blogging e.g. Wordpress
• Micro blogging e.g. Twitter
• Video blogging e.g. U Tube, Vimeo
• Audio blogging e.g. Podbean
• Online photo albums
• Picasa
• Flick R
• Facebook
17. • Enid and her tomatoes
• Erina Kabatereine and her chickens
• Alice Nangonzi with her house and
plantation
• Grace planting simsim and sunflower
in Tororo
• Cissy from Luweero rearing turkeys
• Chairperson in Butalejja with
planting bananas
• Presidential gift from Kabale
• Sneak view on our blogs …
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