Category Archives: Amnesty: Activism

one take on web-aided activism

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Jukka_V

_ _ __ one take on what we’re tackling, includes an embedded YouTube video. http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_clash/tf.php _ _ _

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Simple but interesting…

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Turo Drakvik

…web campaign from World Population Foundation (WPF): http://www.europeansisters.com/

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Event: Practical Design for Social Action

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Andrea Botero

I found this information about a workshop in the UK in May 15th organizers are PRADSA (Practical Design for Social Action) and the topic is “Designing the Techniques and Tools that Shape the Future – Social and Technical Challenges ”, … Continue reading →

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Challenges

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Anne Luotonen

I’m on similar tracks as Jukka and possibly repeating his (and other already mentioned) ideas, only in other words. Besides referring to Amnesty as a house, we may also think Amnesty as a user interface into human rights activism. Human … Continue reading →

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web 2.0 and human rights, views from a professional activist

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Andrea Botero

During the past LIFT conference in Geneve, Amnesty international had a “Provocation about web 2.0 and human rights” presented by Helen Suarez and Dan McQuillan (webmaster of AI) the video is in Google Video. In there they discuss the potentials … Continue reading →

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Bed-time reading

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Andrea Botero

3 suggestions for assorted inspiration. It would be nice if you can collect more as comments to this post. Design Like You Give a Damn ISBN 1-933045-25-6 Ed by Architecture for Humanity A compendium of innovative architectural projects from around … Continue reading →

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Notes from Petri Merenlahti’s presentation on 28.11.06

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Andrea Botero

I am gathering here some of the notes I collected from his presentation and will kindly ask all of you to contribute with other insights and points for the benefit of those that where not present, and for comparing ideas. … Continue reading →

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