[Nettime-nl] why activism 2.0 will win the streets: new forms of protests and mobilisation (Dec. 8, The Hague)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Why activism 2.0 will win the streets: new forms of protests and  
mobilisation

Dialogue for the Hivos, Digital natives with a Cause? Thinkathon

@ Museum for Communication, The Hague, 8th of December 2010, 16.30 –  
18.30

In the mashed-up world of Web 2.0, there is power in a Click! One  
click is all it takes to connect to strangers, to make new friends, to  
create new universes and to transform existing worlds. There has been  
much euphoria about the power of the Click. But what does it all mean?  
How can we unleash this potential of the world that is just a click  
away? There are just as many questions as there are opinions regarding  
activism 2.0 and new forms of mobilization. However, no one can deny  
that these new forms of mobilizations exist and are forcing us to re- 
visit preconceived notions of what it means to be political and how to  
mobilise for change. To capture these new forms of mobilization The  
Hivos Digital Natives with a Cause? Knowledge programme, in  
collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore is  
organizing a public dialogue on Activism 2.0

To explore new forms of protest and mobilization two experts, Juliana  
Rotich and Jasmin Patheja, will talk about technology and citizen  
participation from their own experiences. Juliana Rotich is the  
Program Director of Ushahidi (Kenya) a web based reporting system that  
utilizes crowd-sourced date to formulate visual map information of a  
crisis in real-time basis. Jasmin Patheja is the initiator of the  
Blank Noise project (India), a collective that addresses the problem  
of sexual harassment in public spaces through unique online and  
offline interventions and mobilisation geared towards raising  
political consciousness about the gendered nature of public spaces.

Please join us at the Museum for communication at 16.30 for this  
interesting discussion on new forms of mobilization. The discussion  
will be let by to Digital Natives from Asia and Africa, who are  
working in mobile activism and digital storytelling for change.

Wednesday 8th of December 16.30 – 18.30  at the Museum for  
Communication. Admission is free. Please register athttp://hoezo.congrezzo.nl/hivoskp/observer 
. More info: f.jansen@hivos.nl or visit http://www.digitalnatives.in.


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