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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. Examples from Haiti.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. But I'm highly suspicious of most of these.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). It's called Why Congo Matters. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. They wanted more training in-depth, and they wanted to really learn how to use all these different tools to get ahead in life and advance their dreams. Well, first, it started for me at a young age as a young woman.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity. With your help, we will!

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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