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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Examples from Haiti. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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