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Hivos in a few words

As a development organisation we are working on:

A fair, free and sustainable world

With equal access to means and opportunities for women and man

In cooperation with more than 800 local partnerships

in more than 30 landen in Azia, Africa and Central and South America

Hivos in the world

Central focus CIM

Lack of freedom of expression

Limited access to information

Absence of media freedom

Lack Support cultural productions

Public spaces debate and dialogue

CIM

Alliance Press NowRNTC

Connect with other sectors

Integration Culture, ICT & Media

Web 2.0

Space for Expression

Space for Engagement

Ambition: Substantially increase space for expression and citizen engagement

Twaweza - Ushahidi

Put pressure on Governments by:

Informing citizins

By smart use of ict's and media

Achtergrondinformatie

TwawezaTwaweza means we can make it happen in Swahili. It is a new citizen-centered initiative, focusing on large-scale change in East Africa. Twaweza believes that lasting change requires bottom-up action. We seek to foster conditions and expand opportunities through which millions of people can get information and make change happen in their own communities directly and by holding government to account. Real change takes time. We are not keen to just do easy activities and check implementation boxes. That is why the Twaweza initiative has a ten year time frame, with two goals. First, we seek to enhance citizen agency, by which we mean the ability of men, women and young people to get better information more quickly, cheaply and reliably;monitor and discuss whats going on;speak out; and act to make a difference. This is important for its own sake, because every person should feel a sense of empowerment or control over their own lives. It is also important because it contributes to our second goal: which is to enable many more people to enjoy quality basic education, health care and clean water.

UshahidiThe Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

Election monitoring in Namibia

Disaster aid (Hati)

Access to water as a basic need

Examples

Mobile Cinema

Big outreach

Stage for critical reflexion

Start of a debate

In a way, Wag the Dog already happened for real. Except the story was called The War of the Worlds and it was played as a radio broadcast in 1938. War of the Worlds is drama about a Martian invasion of Earth. What was particularly fun about this radio broadcast was that the first 2/3 of the 1-hr long story was just a series of simulated news bulletins. And the story ran uninterrupted, ie, without commercials. So many radio listeners in the US freaked out, thinking a real invasion was taking place!

The panic this caused even made it on the front page of the New York Times! Clearly, pulling of a Wag-the-Dog in the 1930s was a piece of cake!

And thats because the information ecosystem looked something like this in the 1930s. Largely disconnected and broadcast only, ie, one-to-many. Can anyone point out an important node that should be included in this ecosystem? Thats right, the newspaper. But the paper would not have been printed at the speed that the radio broadcast was taking place to help counter fears; unlike today, of course, thanks to online news.

Pakistan 07 - Flash Protests

Spain 04 - The Night of SMS

Philippines 01 - Coup de Text

Tibet 08 - Media Blackout?

TIBET

In March 2008 hundreds of Tibetan monks took to the streets in and near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to protest Chinese rule. Although the heavily censored Chinese media refused to cover the story, both Tibetans and foreign tourists used the combination of mobile phone cameras and the Internet to get the news out.

Amateur cellphone photos and video clips showing what were described as confrontations between police and Tibetans protesting Chinese rule poured onto websites big and small, including those for major news media, Tibetan rights groups and tourist blogs.

Iran 09 - Twitterfall

Morocco 08 - Exposing Abuse

China 08 - Live-Twittered Arrest

Egypt 08 - Exposing Torture

This weekend, volunteers will virtually collaborate with USAID staff during the Agencys first crowdsourcing effort. Volunteers will work online to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that data with geographic information to help the Agency map its impact. This type of public engagement builds upon new developments at the cross section of new technology and efforts to make aid data more transparent.

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