Mapping for Social Change introduction
•Transferir como ODP, PDF•
0 gostou•260 visualizações
Introduction at ict4d track of #iweeks12 organised by the Univeristy of Wagening
Recomendados
Recomendados
Mais conteúdo relacionado
Semelhante a Mapping for Social Change introduction
Semelhante a Mapping for Social Change introduction (20)
Último
Último (12)
Mapping for Social Change introduction
- 1. | 2010 1
- 2. Hivos in a few words As a development organisation we are working on: A fair, free and sustainable world With equal access to means and opportunities for women and man In cooperation with more than 800 local partnerships in more than 30 landen in Azia, Africa and Central and South America | 2010 2
- 3. Hivos in the world | 2010 3
- 4. Central focus CIM Limited access to information Lack Support cultural productions Absence of media freedom Public spaces debate and dialogue Lack of freedom of expression CIM | 2010 4
- 5. Ambition: Substantially increase space for expression and citizen engageme Space for Expression Integration Culture, ICT & Media Space for Engagement Alliance Press Web 2.0 No w RNTC Connect with other sectors | 2010 5
- 6. Twaweza - Ushahidi Put pressure on Governments by: Informing citizins By smart use of ict's and media | 2010 6
- 7. Examples lection monitoring in Namibia Disaster aid (Haïti) ccess to water as a basic need | 2010 7
- 8. Mobile Cinema Big outreach Stage for critical reflexion Start of a debate | 2010 8
- 16. Philippines ‘01 - “Coup de Text” Spain ‘04 - “The Night of SMS” Tibet ‘08 - “Media Blackout?” Pakistan ‘07 - “Flash Protests”
- 17. Morocco ‘08 - “Exposing Abuse” Iran ‘09 - “Twitterfall” China ’08 - “Live-Twittered Arrest” Egypt ‘08 - “Exposing Torture”
- 32. 12 10 8 Kolom 1 6 Kolom 2 Kolom 3 4 2 0 Rij 1 Rij 2 Rij 3 Rij 4
Notas do Editor
- Achtergrondinformatie Twaweza Twaweza means “we can make it happen” in Swahili. It is a new citizen-centered initiative, focusing on large-scale change in East Africa. Twaweza believes that lasting change requires bottom-up action. We seek to foster conditions and expand opportunities through which millions of people can get information and make change happen in their own communities directly and by holding government to account. Real change takes time. We are not keen to just do easy activities and check implementation boxes. That is why the Twaweza initiative has a ten year time frame, with two goals. First, we seek to enhance ‘citizen agency’, by which we mean the ability of men, women and young people to get better information more quickly, cheaply and reliably; monitor and discuss what’s going on; speak out; and act to make a difference. This is important for its own sake, because every person should feel a sense of empowerment or control over their own lives. It is also important because it contributes to our second goal: which is to enable many more people to enjoy quality basic education, health care and clean water. Ushahidi The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
- In a way, Wag the Dog already happened for real. Except the story was called “The War of the Worlds” and it was played as a radio broadcast in 1938. “War of the Worlds” is drama about a Martian invasion of Earth. What was particularly fun about this radio broadcast was that the first 2/3 of the 1-hr long story was just a series of simulated news bulletins. And the story ran uninterrupted, ie, without commercials. So many radio listeners in the US freaked out, thinking a real invasion was taking place!
- The panic this caused even made it on the front page of the New York Times! Clearly, pulling of a Wag-the-Dog in the 1930s was a piece of cake!
- And that’s because the information ecosystem looked something like this in the 1930s. Largely disconnected and broadcast only, ie, one-to-many. Can anyone point out an important node that should be included in this ecosystem? That’s right, the newspaper. But the paper would not have been printed at the speed that the radio broadcast was taking place to help counter fears; unlike today, of course, thanks to online news.
- TIBET In March 2008 hundreds of Tibetan monks took to the streets in and near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to protest Chinese rule. Although the heavily censored Chinese media refused to cover the story, both Tibetans and foreign tourists used the combination of mobile phone cameras and the Internet to get the news out. Amateur cellphone photos and video clips showing what were described as confrontations between police and Tibetans protesting Chinese rule poured onto websites big and small, including those for major news media , Tibetan rights groups and tourist blogs.
- This weekend, volunteers will virtually collaborate with USAID staff during the Agency’s first crowdsourcing effort. Volunteers will work online to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that data with geographic information to help the Agency map its impact. This type of public engagement builds upon new developments at the cross section of new technology and efforts to make aid data more transparent.