All Blog Posts Tagged 'rights' (6)

The Importance of Spirit: The Strengths and Limitations of ICT in Development

By: Mitchell Sommers, Accountability Lab Resident

During the 2013 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, I attended a panel on “Development in a Digital Age,” which featured representative experts from the Institute of the Future (IFTF),Facebook, various…

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on November 14, 2013 at 11:23pm — 1 Comment

Film-Making as a Powerful Tool in Accountability and Social Change

(Students accepting their certificates at the Accountability Film Festival)

By Lawrence Yealue and Francis Lansana, Accountability Lab Liberia

There are often complaints in Liberia about inequality and corruption, but in many cases little effort is made to validate…

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on October 17, 2013 at 9:08pm — No Comments

Graft-busting tours of Nepal and Liberia to showcase grassroots activism

http://bloggingonaccountability.org/2013/10/07/graft-busting-tours-of-nepal-and-liberia-to-showcase-grassroots-activism/

By: Stella Dawson. This post was originally published by …

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on October 8, 2013 at 5:56am — No Comments

Even The Broken Clock Tower Gives Nepalis The Right Time Twice a Day

By: Narayan Adhikari, Nepal Country Representative

http://bloggingonaccountability.org/2013/09/27/even-the-broken-clock-tower-gives-nepalis-the-right-time-twice-a-day/#more-556As I entered the city of Birgunj, Nepal’s hub for…

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on September 27, 2013 at 7:34pm — No Comments

181818 tweets, likes and comments to stop violence

The Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) seeks to engage "netizens" from around the world by using online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to generate 181,818 tweets, likes and comments on various ways to say no to violence against women. By the end of the 18-day campaign in the Philippines, we are expecting to get more than what we have targeted.

This campaign not only provides interaction among men and women from…

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Added by Sheena Carmel Opulencia on November 28, 2011 at 4:37am — No Comments

Social media for activism – Driver for societal change or overhyped myth?

For a while now I am following what seems to be a trench battle between the so-called “cyber-utopians”, who see social media as the guarantor of a new age of equality, democracy and civil rights, and the critical skeptics who point out that they’ve seen it all before and who see social media as an overstretched hype with no real impact on the real world.

The Arab Spring and the related media coverage regarding the role of social media have surely added a new quality to the…

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Added by Johannes Schunter on October 20, 2011 at 9:36pm — No Comments