Exploring the changing role of information communication technologies in political activism, resistance and human rights: The evidence suggests that the effects of internet access and new technologies are positive, resulting in increased respect for human rights.
GIS Technology for Genocide Prevention
An article considering “the uses of virtual globes such as Google Earth for “stimulating more effective responses to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities.””
Storytelling for Change: The Most Significant Change technique
The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a form of program monitoring and evaluation involving storytelling, that can be applied across a number of social issues.
The process involves the collection of significant change stories (involving anecdotes rather than data) from the field, and the selection of the most significant of these stories by stakeholders or staff. Once changes have been captured, people sit down together, read the stories aloud and have regular, in-depth discussions about the value of the reported changes. When the technique is successful, people begin to focus on impact.
There are 10 steps:
1. How to start and raise interest
2. Defining the domains of change
3. Defining the reporting period
4. Collecting SC stories
5. Selecting the most significant of the stories
6. Feeding back the results of the selection process
7. Verification of stories
8. Quantification
9. Secondary analysis and meta-monitoring
10. Revising the system
How to Make Your Own Pirate Radio Station
...Free Radio Berkeley has put together a short video that walks you through the actual making of a 10 watt FM transmitter. That’s enough radio juice to broadcast in a 3-4 mile radius…
How To Make a Radio Station from Seth Gadsden on Vimeo.Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Last year, Reporters Without Borders reiussed its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, offering practical advice and clear explanations about blogging for all those whose online freedom of expression is subject to restrictions.
Through the handbook, Reporters Without Borders seeks to protect bloggers from leaders of authoritarian countries, who are becoming more and suspicious of bloggers who often tackle subjects the so-called traditional media dare not cover.
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