What is Info-Activism?

Info-Activism is an approach which helps rights advocates tactically utilise information, communications and digital technologies to enhance advocacy work. Tactical Tech believes that new technologies have significant potential to enhance the work of campaigners and advocates, giving them the tools to gather and analyse information and the means to turn that information into action. In this website, we would like to introduce you to our new initiative - The Info-Activism Camp which will be held in Bangalore, India between the 19th and 25th of February 2009. More about our approach to Info-Activism can be found here.

Partners

This seven-day camp is organised by Tactical Technology Collective in collaboration with Aspiration, our long term partner, who are co-developing the curricula and leading the facilitation at the camp. To learn more about Aspiration's approach to facilitation, please take a look at http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Main_Page

This camp has been funded by the:

Oak Foundation (http://www.oakfnd.org/)
Sigrid Rausing Trust (http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/)
Open Society Institute (http://www.soros.org/) and
Hivos (http://www.hivos.nl/english).

Featured examples of info-activism

Police Brutality Exposed

For many years, human rights organisations have reported that torture and abuse were rampant in Egypt's police stations. It wasn't until videos emerged showing some of the worst of these violations that the spotlight truly fell on the conduct of Egypt's police. Bloggers such as Wael Abbas brought international attention to police torture by publicising these videos – that show officers committing atrocities on suspects.

Link: http://hub.witness.org/EgyptPolice
Additional videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2MalxaJDE

What is Info-Activism?

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Featured examples of info-activism

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