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EXCELLENT discussion and examples of how Avaaz (international) and 38 Degrees (UK) use online crowdsourcing to impact on politics and governance. Useful for HL ICT and Civil Society, role of Civil Society and advocacy.

ICT and Civil society - using ICT to combat corruption and promote good governance - 11 mins audio from ICT4Gov and Voices against Corruption

Useful for ICT in civil society - got my students to make notes on opportunities and risks from the executive summary.

Examine the changes in a transport, internet ortelecommunications network in terms of the extension oflinks and nodes and the intensity of use at a national orglobal scale.Describe the role of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) in civil society and the transmission andflow of images, ideas, information and finance.

"The conditions that need to be present to text in Liberia do not necessarily exist simply because someone has access to a phone; if there is one major assumption that many of us in ICT for development are guilty of, it's this one." - an interesting piece which could be used to critically examine the adoption of mobile phone technology in sub-Saharan Africa and its role in civil society. Just having access is not always enough...

Updated Sept 2011

Updated Nov 2011