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stan mag

Arab World: After Tunisia, Who's Next? · Global Voices - 0 views

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tunisia

shared by stan mag on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • “More Tunisias, Please”
  • it is undeniable that the Tunisian uprising has sparked hope for tides of change across the Arab world.
  • stan mag on 16 Jan 11
     
    it is undeniable that the Tunisian uprising has sparked hope for tides of change across the Arab world.
Arnault Coulet

@digiactive what do you think about @evgenymorozov blog post "From slacktivism to activ... - 0 views

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activism

shared by Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • I've grown increasingly skeptical of numerous digital activism campaigns that attempt to change the world through Facebook and Twitter.
  • He started a Facebook group, which implied – but never stated so explicitly – that the city authorities were planning to dismantle the fountain, which of course was NEVER the case. He seeded the group to 125 friends who joined in a matter of hours; then it started spreading virally. In the first few days, it immediately went to a 1000 members and then it started growing more aggressively. After 3 days, it began to grow with over 2 new members each minute in the day time. When the group reached 27.500 members, Jørgensen decided to end the experiment. So there you have it: almost 28,000 people joined a cause that didn't really exist!
  • "just like we need stuff to furnish our homes to show who we are, on Facebook we need cultural objects that put together a version of me that I would like to present to the public."
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  • acebook users shape their online identity implicitly rather than explicitly
  • This shopping binge in an online identity supermarket has led to the proliferation of what I call “slacktivism”, where our digital effort make us feel very useful and important but have zero social impact
  • In a perfect world, this shouldn't even be considered a problem: better donate a penny than not to donate at all. The problem, however, is that the granularity of contemporary digital activism provides too many easy way-outs: too many people decide to donate a penny where they may otherwise want to donate a dollar
  • The problem is that most of these campaigns do not have clear goals or agenda items beyond awareness-raising.
  • Asking for money could also undermine one's efforts to engage groups members in more meaningful real-life activities: the fact that they have already donated some money, no matter how little, makes them feel as if they have already done their bit and should be left alone
  • Some grassroots campaigns are beginning to realize it: for example, the web-site of "Free Monem", a 2007 pan-Arab initiative to free an Egyptian blogger from jail carried a sign that said “DON'T DONATE; Take action” and had logos of Visa and MasterCard in a crossed red circle in the background
  • his was a way to show that their campaign needed more than money as well as to shame numerous local and international NGOs that like to raise money to “release bloggers from jail”, without having any meaningful impact on the situation on the ground.
  • Psychologists offer an interesting explanation as to why a million people working together may be less effective than one person working alone. They call this phenomenon “social loafing”.
  • Reading about Ringelmann's experiments, I realized that the same problem plagues much of today's “Facebook” activism:
  • For example, FreeRice, a web-site affiliated with the UN Food Program
  • This is a brilliant approach: millions of people rely on the Internet to study English anyway and most of them wouldn't mind being exposed to online advertising in exchange for a useful service. Both sides benefit, with no high words exchanged. Those who participate in the effort are not driven by helping the world and have a very selfish motivation; yet, they probably generate more good than thousands of people who are “fighting” hunger via Facebook. While this model may not be applicable to every situation, it's by finding practical hybrid models like FreeRice's that we could convert immense and undeniable collective energy of Internet users into tangible social change.
  • on't give people their identity trophies until they have proved their worth
    • Arnault Coulet
      Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09
       
      clé
  • create diverse, distinctive, and non-trivial tasks; your supporters can do more than just click “send to all” button” all day.
    • Arnault Coulet
      Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09
       
      second point
stan mag

World Government Data | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

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opendata

shared by stan mag on 27 Jun 10 - Cached
  • stan mag on 27 Jun 10
     
    "Search the world's government data"
Rem Palpitt

Clinton: The U.S. Sides with a Networked World - 0 views

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net-politique internet

shared by Rem Palpitt on 24 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Rem Palpitt on 24 Jan 10
     
    When the crowd gathered yesterday morning in Washington's Newseum to hear Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's big speech on the topic "Internet freedom" included Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky,
Arnault Coulet

Valuable Games » Blog Archive » My.BarackObama.com as Augmented Reality Game - 0 views

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terra defection engagement my.barackobama.com obama games

shared by Arnault Coulet on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • what made MyBO revolutionary, and what puts it in the same category as World Without Oil, is that it also asked participants to engage in non-digital, non-virtual activity
  • Perhaps the biggest problem of MyBO as a game was its failure to scale. It was disheartening to log in and see that you were in 266,442nd place
  • But the system would have been far more motivating if your cohort group was more local: all Obama supporters in your state, city, or your MyBO groups.
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  • Some were upset by the change, which demonstrated that the points really did motivate some. Wrote one of the top 500: “GIVE ME MY POINTS BACK!!!! THEY DO NOT BELONG TO YOU!!!!!”
  • Full disclosure: including one I’m now working on a civic engagement game for Fair Trade).
stan mag

La bombe Wikileaks: visualisation du Guardian - 1 views

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shared by stan mag on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • stan mag on 26 Jul 10
     
    "Afghanistan war logs: our selection of significant incidents"
Arnault Coulet

Pourquoi le BlackBerry inquiète les Emirats arabes unis - 0 views

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emirats arabes censure obama blackberry rim

shared by Arnault Coulet on 02 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Pourquoi ces pays s'en prennent-ils à RIM ? Les reproches faits aux BlackBerry, conçus pour le monde de l'entreprise, concernent son système de sécurité unique. Les données transmises par les BlackBerry transitent en effet par les serveurs de RIM pour y être chiffrées ou déchiffrées. Il n'est alors plus possible de surveiller les données captées ou émises par ces téléphones. Or l'Arabie saoudite ou les Emirats arabes unis censurent largement Internet.
  • "Ces jeunes gens n'ont rien fait de mal : ils avaient dans un premier temps prévu la tenue d'une manifestation pacifique, et l'ont finalement annulée pour ne pas violer la loi. (...) Dans l'impossibilité de déchiffrer les données chiffrées du réseau BlackBerry et d'accéder aux données personnelles des clients, les forces de sécurité ont donc décidé d'intimider les utilisateurs de ces services"
  • Après son élection, Barack Obama avait dû livrer une longue bataille avec les services secrets américains pour être autorisé à conserver un téléphone RIM, ses services considérant qu'il était dangereux de laisser le président des Etats-Unis utiliser un mobile, même avec chiffrement, pour échanger des informations stratégiques. Barack Obama avait finalement obtenu un BlackBerry, dont les protections ont été spécifiquement renforcées pour son usage. Principal revers : seule une dizaine de personnes connaissent son adresse e-mail, et son téléphone commence à ennuyer Barack Obama. "Ça n'est pas très drôle, a-t-il déclaré sur la chaîne de télévision ABC. Personne n'ose m'envoyer de messages croustillants, parce qu'ils pensent qu'ils seront probablement versés aux archives présidentielles".
JP Clement

Le rapport 2010 du World e-Parliament - 0 views

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edemocratie eparticipation

shared by JP Clement on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • JP Clement on 16 Sep 10
     
    Le Centre mondial pour les TIC au Parlement a publié son Rapport mondial 2010 sur l'e-Parlement. Ill présente les résultats d'une enquête sur l'adoption des TIC par les parlements et, plus particulièrement, sur leur usage des médias sociaux pour la communication avec le citoyen.
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