Category: Awareness

"Subversive Tech and Burma's Struggle for Democracy" involved a presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma's borders, footage from the Sept 2007 Saffron Revolution, where mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests seen in a generation, and a Q&A with "Stanley", a Burmese computer programmer and chairperson of the All Burma IT Students Union.

Introducing Digital Democracy! Journey with us around the world as we share the story behind our creation. Get a glimpse of our previous work – from Thailand to South Africa to Armenia. Meet the team behind Digital Democracy, and learn how you can play a role in #DdTv.

This is for http://openideals.com/ITP2800 – Week 2 – Burma VJ is a moving and shocking account of the popular protests that broke out across Rangoon in 2007. It relies entirely on documentary footage shot by undercover reporters which has been piece…

The conflict in Kashmir has been reported over the years through traditional media channels like newspapers, radio and television, but over the two years there has been an explosion of citizen journalism.

Young men armed with their mobile phones are capturing every disturbance in the disputed state of Kashmir in an effort to combat what they see as restrictive policing.

OS Map is a tool to turn your Android phone into a handy Ordnance Survey map, with your GPS position pinpointed on it! For support and frequently asked questions, please scroll down. OS Map is completely free, and available to download via the Android Market.

It's been over 11 months since the Android first hit the scene with HTC's T-Mobile G1, and in that time we've come to the conclusion that, despite having more or less a clean slate on industrial design choices and specs, little progress has been made in the way of variation. Stacked up side-to-side, Motorola CLIQ manages to stand out with a slide-out keyboard and MOTOBLUR skin, but under the hood, it's pretty much as uniform as a netbook. Peruse for yourself in the chart above.

Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.

The current MySQL preference pane is not 64-bit compatible on Snow Leopard. As a result, I built a new preference pane that is compatible with both 64-bit and 32-bit Intel processors as well as 32-bit PowerPC processors.

READING: An SMS hub is a stand-alone system which allows you to send and receive large numbers of text messages via the mobile phone network, without needing to be connected to the internet or to any other computer network.

In order to write effective copy for your text message campaign, keep two goals in mind that all social marketing messaging should achieve to be successful:

* It should generate more new supporters or constituents in new areas or
* It should generate more activities (actions, donations, etc) from existing supporters

This groundbreaking new work builds on 50 years of Gene Sharp’s definitive academic research and practical experience aiding nonviolent struggles around the world. Recently, advocates have applied these methods and strategies with great success in Serbia and Ukraine. In his most recent work, Dr. Sharp shows how to strategically plan nonviolent struggle and make it more effective.

ITP 2800 class reading – week 1 – A great piece of post-cyberpunk (but firmly rooted in the now) fiction that presciently connects the dots to demonstrate the impact that mobile, social and even gaming technology can have within an authoritarian surveillance state. In this case, that state just happens to be California in their own "post-9/11 event" world.

Greenpeace International (GPI) uses three vessels: The Rainbow Warrior, The Arctic Sunrise, and The Esperanza. GPI operates these ships, and employs the ships' crew. GPI is always looking for experienced sea going crew members, that hold the appropriate, current STCW95 licenses.