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Policy Research, Education and Advocacy

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Tools

  • Using the Web to Promote Campus Sustainability
  • Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy 
  • Blog: NetCentric Advocacy "Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity"
  • Wiki: Advocacy 2.0
  • Advocacy 2.0 Videos
  • ePolitics: Dissecting the Craft of Online Political Advocacy (blog)
  • Tactical Technology Collaborative: is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. They provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.
  • Maps for Advocacy: The booklet is an effective guide to using maps in advocacy. The mapping process for advocacy is explained vividly through case studies, descriptions of procedures and methods, a review of data sources as well as a glossary of mapping terminology. Scattered through the booklet are links to websites which afford a glance at a few prolific mapping efforts.
  • 10 tactics for turning information into action shows how rights advocates around the world have used the internet and digital technologies to create positive change. The 50 minute film will be launched at the Front Line Club in London, in December 2009 with a series of screenings worldwide. It is accompanied with a deck of cards featuring tools, tips and advice to help you plan your Info-activism action. The 10 Tactics project website will be launched in November. 
  • Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work. Mobiles in-a-box is designed to inspire you, to present possibilities for the use of mobile telephony in your work and to introduce you to some tools which may help you. After reading the material in this toolkit you can expect to be able to design and implement a mobile advocacy strategy for your organisation.

 

Articles

 

Ideas

  • From Dr. William R. Nylen, Chair, Department of Political Science, Stetson University 

     

    I'm intrigued by the Social Media concept and its applications to service learning and community based research, and to other efforts to promote citizen engagement.  Anything we do along those lines would necessarily have to be localized, with links to regional or national organizations and networks. 

     

    For example, given concerns here in Central Florida with suburban sprawl and environmental protection (one of many localized issues), I have this idea of engaging Stetson University students in a process of gathering land use petitions for rezonings, annexations, and the like shortly after they are submitted to the local authorities, then superimposing each one onto a map of the county that would be posted on a public website, also maintained by students, alongside a listing of all subsequent steps in the process – dates, locations, etc. – as well as the respective authorities who have a hand in that decision-making process.  Local administrators and 'outsiders' all agree that by the time most opportunities arrive for the public to have a say in such matters, most decisions have essentially already been made at earlier steps in the process.  So the public voice is superfluous on one of the key issues of a community like the one we live in.  The web-map would be linked to, or actually set alongside, a blog-site that would serve as an information-sharing and a local networking tool.  People who want to be alerted to land use changes in their communities could elect to be notified via email or via some Social Media (e.g. facebook) whenever such an issue comes up.  Students from my university would operate and maintain the website.

     

    An overall home for this and other issue-specific sites would be a virtual institute: the Stetson Institute of Public Education.  This Institute would also contain spaces – separate websites as well as links to/from the issue sites – for local groups that may or may not have the time or resources to construct their own sites.  Again, students could assist in the process of teaching folks how to construct, then maintain, these websites.  The sites themselves could be housed in the Stetson University IT system. Or if they exist already, they could simply be linked to the Stetson-maintained website.  The Institute website could also be used to foster awareness of public lectures and other informational events both on our campus and within the community at large.

 

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