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Digital humanitarianism
The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts. At TEDxRC2, Paul Conneally shows extraordinary examples of social media and other new technologies becoming central to … Continue reading
Let’s take back the Internet!
Ted Talk by Rebecca MacKinnon on freedom in the Internet. Todays social networks are large companies and millions depend on their services to communicate and voice their political opinion. Large multinationals that own this networks sometimes comply with the demands … Continue reading
Watch a movie about Wikileaks online
The Swedish TV channel SVT presents Wikileaks, an organization committed to transparency that acts by revealing confidential information. Many times the revealed information exposes corruption, backstage games and disrespect for basic human rights.
Do you have clean water to drink? Not everybody has
Almost a billion people on Earth don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation causes 80% of diseases and kills more people than all forms of … Continue reading
10 activism tactics
Tactical Technology Collective is a training organization in activism tactics. They use information and digital technology to create positive change and they have produced a documentary that presents 10 key tactics in info-activism.
