Event Details
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Time
12:00pm
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Date
05 Sep, 2008
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Location
- NED Main Conference Room
- 1025 F Street NW Washington, DC
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Contact
WLP
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the nature of democracy activism. Human rights activists are using Blogs, YouTube, Google Maps, and other cutting edge tools to track human rights violations, raise awareness, educate citizens about their rights, and gain access to previously closed communities. Female users are logging in at increasing rates, currently outnumbering male users on online social networks.
Women democracy activists from four countries will discuss the ways and means by which organizations are using ICTs for civic activism, including reform of discriminatory legislation.
