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?

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