Additional Resources
Introduction
- The Virtual Activist 2.0, May 2003, NetAction. A basic primer and training course for campaigning online.
- In 2000 and 2002, OMB Watch posted a series of articles at NPAction.org on non-profits using technology for advocacy.
- Steven Clift’s E-Democracy Resource Links. An annotated list of links on the use of electronic media to facilitate democratic governance.
International Web Landscape
- Internet statistics from the International Telecommunications Union
- A Beginner’s Guide to Gender in Information and Communications Technology Policy
Campaigns Around the World
- Using the Internet Strategically: Real Life Strategic Uses of APC Networks from the Late 1990s. 10 stories from around the world.
- Review of Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship, Rajat Khosla, June 2004. (scroll down the page)
Cell Phones
- FrontlineSMS, a Windows-based SMS group server designed with NGOs in mind. Read more about it. November 2005.
- TxtMob, a free service that lets you easily broadcast SMS text messages to a group of people. See Protests Powered by Cellphone, New York Times, September 9, 2004.
- Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa to 21st Century, New York Times, August 25, 2005.
Surveillance and Crackdown
- False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa, Human Rights Watch, November 2005.
- Internet Filtering in Burma in 2005: A Country Study, OpenNet Initiative, October 2005.
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, Reporters without Borders, September 2005.
- Internet censorship in mainland China, Wikipedia.
- How the Great Firewall of China Works, (mp3) Bill Xia, July 9, 2004.
- The Internet In the Arab World: A New Space of Repression?, Gamal Eid, June 2004. A concise survey of Internet access and censorhip in West Asia and Northern Africa.
- China’s Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People’s Republic of China, November 2001, Greg Walton.
- OpenNet Initiative, three Universities analyzing Internet filtering and surveillance.
- Web sites blocked in Thailand, updated periodically.
Protection and Anonymity
- For more information about online and offline security for activists visit http://security.resist.ca/
- See https://help.riseup.net/mail/security/ for more on email security.
- Secure Instant Messaging, (mp3) Phar, presentation at the HOPE Conference, July 11, 2004.
- Ten Years of Practical Anonymity, (mp3) Len Sassaman, presentation at the HOPE Conference, July 10, 2004.
Advocacy Tools
- Open Source Content Management Systems, a directory of free Web publishing tools, with many online demonstrations.
- Databases and Building Power for Low-Income People - Community Voices Heard, May 2001. How CVH was able to impact a candidate forum by assuring turnout with a database.
On Email
- Using Electronic Mailing Lists for Mobilization, December 2004, Katja Cronauer.
On Blogs
- Hossein Derakshan at Expression Under Repression, notes on blogs in Iran. Ethan Zuckerman, November 2005.
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, Reporters without Borders, September 2005.
- The Committee to Protect Bloggers, a group blog and non-profit-in-formation to track and lobby on behalf of arrested Web loggers around the world.
- Blogging Tools, a list of downloadble software, hosted services, and publishing tools.
- Legal Guide for Bloggers (in the U.S.), July 2005, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else), April 2005, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Iran's bloggers get caught in crossfire of 'war on terror', US effort to silence communications from the 'axis of evil' may stem liberal expression as well. February 2005, Michael Theodoulou.
- 10 ideas for how to build a better blog, January 2005, Brian Bailey.
On Openness
- Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization promoting flexible copyright for creative work.
- Free Software Foundation, stewards of the GNU General Public License. Dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software.
Viral Marketing
- Free Range Graphics, a Web design company. See their Flash campaigns.
Translation and Accessibility
- The Nomad Interpretation Free Tool is a Free translation transmission and recording tool.
- Big, Stark & Chunky, Joe Clark, January 2005. Using CSS to design Web sites for users with low-vision.
- Dive into Accessibility, Mark Pilgrim, 2002. A good introduction to principles and practices of building accessible Web sites.
- information and guidelines for Web accessibility published by the European Union.
- Vischeck is a computer simulation of what your site looks like to people with color vision deficiency.
- Bobby is a Web service that tests Web pages for compliance with Section 508 and the W3C’s accessibility guidelines.
Examples of Effective Action
- Subcribe to Politics Online‘ email newsletters for ongoing news and shining examples of electronic advocacy.
On Torture and Terrorism
- Terrorism, Democracy and the Open Internet, March 10, 2005 workshop at the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security.
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