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Tactical Tech will be at the Climate Advocacy Institute in Turkey - 28th June to 18th July
The Climate Advocacy Institute provides training for young campaigners in tools that help them to promote discussion of issues that are important to them and their communities, and to advocate for positive change. Tactical Tech will be leading the Journalism & New Media for Advocacy track along with faculty and teaching assistants from the Creative Arts and Technology program of Bloomfield College, USA.
Tactical Tech at DD4D conference in Paris
Stephanie Hankey talks about information design for rights advocacy at the 'Data Design for Decisions: Enhancing social, economic and environmental progress'. More than 50 speakers from over 20 countries will present the latest research and best practices on “designing data for decisions.”
The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) have teamed up to organise the first global gathering of information presentation experts. “Data Designed for Decisions” will take place at the OECD headquarters in Paris, June 18-20, 2009.
Online dialogue on Info-Activism. Join us!
Join Tactical Tech, New Tactics and our featured resource practitioners from July 8 - 14 for an online dialogue on Info-Activism: Turning Information into Action. This online dialogue will be a space for practitioners to share the innovative ways in which they have turned information into action with their advocacy campaigns.
A Tactical Tech competition: win some nice prizes
At Tactical Tech we want to support advocates to make use of our Mobiles in-a-box, Message in-a-box and Security in-a-box toolkits. To do this, we are running a competition.
Five winners of this competition will be provided with a Flip camera - or any alternative media gadget or human resource - up to the value of €150 Euros!
To enter this competition, you only need to submit a short application that explains your idea for using one or more of Tactical Tech's toolkits and for documenting this use.
Your Tactical Tech toolkit documentation may include:
- A photo essay showing how you used one of Tactical Tech’s toolkits;
- A blog entry;
- A 'how-to' video;
- A two-minute mini video documentary; or
- A data visualisation, animation, cartoon or drawing.
This documentation might be recorded as an event is unfolding - or afterwards, as a reflection on what happened.
Official Launch of Security in-a-box at Human Rights Council
Tuesday 10th March 2009: Tactical Tech and Front Line will today launch Security in-a-box as part of events surrounding the 10th session of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council in Geneva. Delegates will be provided with a copy of Security in-a-box and will discuss how it is relevant to the work of human rights advocates.
The Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy
The Internet has opened up many possibilities for rights advocates. In order to make the best use of the online world for their campaigns, however, advocates need to know what services are available, how they can be used in an advocacy campaign, who owns them and their hidden dangers.
Info-Activism camp: valuable exchange of information and ideas
Participants at the Info-Activism camp, which ended on Wednesday, relished the experience and went away with valuable information and knowledge from the camp.
New friends and new ideas were the largest gains and participants acknowledged that their campaigns would now be that much more effective because of the knowledge gained from the camp.
The introduction sessions during the first half of the camp gave way to the hands-on sessions during the latter stages and that made for a perfect blend of concepts and practical knowledge.
TTC at work - an update
We have been busy with various tasks in the past few months and below is an update of some of our activities.
Workshop with HIVOS' partners in India
Tactical Tech's three-day workshop on the Strategic use of Information, Communication and Digital Technologies in Advocacy was a productive one for the 10 organisations that attended it at Fireflies, Bangalore last month.
The workshop, which was held from January 27 to 29, was conducted for the HIVOS-funded organisations in India who mainly worked on issues of gender and sexuality.
Maps for Advocacy
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Smog, fast-vanishing forest space, protest marches, human rights abuses and myriad such events and activities need constant attention and backing. Highlighting such issues is no more a herculean task for advocacy groups. Information, communication and digital technologies have smoothened out processes and systems and contain techniques and tools which, if appropriately used, can easily bring about phenomenal change.
Mobiles in-a-box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy
Our new toolkit, Mobiles in-a-box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy - is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to inspire advocacy organisations and present possibilities for the use of mobile telephony in their work. From choosing an audience, to privacy and security issues and also countering technological challenges, Mobiles in-a-box provides effective solutions to enable you get started with using mobiles in your advocacy efforts.