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What communities can do

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  • set up location or project pages in this wiki to tell us about community action for sustainability
  • green maps
  • encourage and benefit from virtual volunteering
  • community websites and social networking sites
  • encourage participatory journalism
  • develop, perhaps co-develop with others, online resources
  • Internet activism

Why it matters

Communties online can find it easier to learn from the successes of other communities worldwide, and can celebrate their own successes with the wider online community.

Participatory journalism

Fast and flexible

Current events can be better covered, with more immediacy, when there are more people reporting them.

Topic or place specific

Participatory journalism can tackle subjects mainstream media might leave alone. Examples include environmental disasters and popular demonstrations.

Commentary about local events can be seen through the eyes of people who are most affected by them - people who live in, work in or visit a locality.

Empowerment

Participatory journalism can help develop a sense of empowerment for ordinary citizens and community groups. It can be seen as part of Getting to know your area and can also be used identify positive news and a can-do approach.

Resources

  • Global Voices Online, international network of bloggers, translators, and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world. W
  • How To Build An Online Community: The Ultimate List Of Resources (2012) The Online Community Guide
  • Movements.org, a division of the non-profit Advancing Human Rights. It is an online marketplace that connects dissidents in closed societies with individuals with desirable skills such as legal, media, PR, and technological experts in open societies. Activists post their needs and request assistance, and experts and professionals post what they have to offer and respond to requests. W
  • Tactical Technology Collective, international nongovernmental organization that trains rights advocates to deploy "information and communications technologies - social media tools, mobile phones, digital security and information design." It works with groups in "developing and transition countries" in particular. W
  • Front Seat - Civic software
  • Green Net GreenNet supports a progressive community working for Peace, the Environment, Civil Rights and Social Justice, through the use of Information Communication Technologies.

Maps

Green Map System - OpenHeatMap - ZeeMaps

Quotes

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson

"only connect" E.M. Forster

See also

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Hyperlocal, One Laptop per Child, Internet activism, Citizen journalism, Web 2.0

External links

  • One Laptop per Child, setup to oversee the creation of affordable educational devices for use in the developing world. W



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