1. How can activists and NGOs benefit from new media?By Evgeny Morozov presented at New Media Essentials summer school organized by Transitions OnlinePrague, July 12/2007

2. How can activists benefit from new media? Part 1 1. Improve access/quality of information 2. Attract public attention to a particular problem 3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing) 4. Establish direct contact with politicians/constituencies 3. How can activists benefit from new media? Part 2 5. Improve outreach/attract new members 6. Mobilize the movement and help with logistics 7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising and collective action 8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs and activists 4. 1. Improve access/quality of information

Examples:

OpenCongress

CongressPedia

TheyWorkForYou.com

Witness/GV Witness

ChicagoCrime

Real Costs

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 2. Attract public attention to a particular problem

Examples:

Wikileaks

OpenSecrets

Maplight.org

Congressional Family Business

Earmarks/Sunlight

Unfluence

18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing)

Examples:

PorkBusters.org/earmarks

TPM Muckraker/attorneys

Whats Mich McConnel hiding?

dKospedia

Offthebus.net

Congressional web-site oversight

Eyes on Darfur

28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 4. Establish direct contact with politicians/constituencies

Examples:

E-petitions/UK government

HearFromYourMp.com

Politicopia

PrezVid/Choose08 on YouTube

TechPresident

40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. PREZVID 50. 51. 52. 5. Improve outreach/attract new members

Examples:

Treehugger.com

WorldChanging

Eyes on Darfur

Barack Obamas web-site

53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 6. Mobilize the movement and help with logistics

:

Meetup

Upcoming

Eventful

MySpace campaigns

58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising and collective action

Examples:

PledgeBank

Fixmystreet

Kivo

Dotherightthing

Freepledge

Webgazeta.org

72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. SOME PM/WIKI TOOLS 78. 8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs and activists

Examples:

Swivel

Gapminder

Connotea

That academic youtube?

79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. , YouTube 86. disclaimer: I've done my best to attribute slides, graphs and screenshots used in this presentation. Nobody is perfect, and some of them may have slipped in unclaimed apologies to the original right holders. Let's hope that my frivolous use of your graphs or tables falls under fair use ;-)