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13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
ONLINE TOOLS IN CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISM, CONFLICT-SENSITIVE JOURNALISM, AND CROSS-BORDER COMMUNICATION
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Onnik Krikorian
Caucasus Regional Editor, Global Voices
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
What is Global Voices?
Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work
together to bring readers reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with an emphasis on
voices that are not ordinarily heard in the mainstream media.
Global Voices is translated into more than 30 languages by volunteer translators, who have formed the
Lingua project. Additionally, Global Voices has an Advocacy website and network to help people speak
out online in places where their voices are censored.
We also have an outreach project called Rising Voices to help marginalized communities use citizen
media to be heard. Technology for Transparency examines the use of online tools in increasing
transparency and accountability globally.
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Global Voices Impact
Four websites most consistently account for links between
countries: YouTube, Wikipedia, the BBC and, a distant
fourth, Global Voices Online. The last of these, launched at
Harvard University in 2005 […] works to create links
between bloggers in different countries, and to find what it
calls “bridge bloggers” […]
The Economist, 2 September 2010
Working relationships with BBC, Reuters, Pulitzer Center for Crisis
Reporting, La Stampa and many others. Frequently quoted by CNN,
BBC, New York Times, The Economist etc.
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
MENA Special Coverage
@gvmena
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Caucasus Special Coverage
@gvcaucasus
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Situation in the S. Caucasus
• Armenia- February 2008 presidential election, 10 dead, State of Emergency declared- Media 'Not Free' (Freedom House)- 187,520 Facebook users (as of 1 August 2011)
• Azerbaijan- Foreign radio stations taken off the air January 2009- Media 'Not Free' (Freedom House)- 431,600 Facebook users (as of 1 August 2011)
• Georgia- August war with Russia- Media 'Partly Free' (Freedom House)- 640,400 Facebook users (as of 1 August 2011)
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Internet Use
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Blogs: The new Samizdat?
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Non-politicized Activism
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Progressive Youth Movements
http://www.youtube.com/user/olmedia
OL! Azerbaijan
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.orghttp://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Tweeting Protests
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Eynulla Fatullayev Campaign
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Novelty and Innovation
Mary Joyce of the Meta Activism project has warned that a key factor in successful online activism
appear to be novelty – it’s hard to articulate “best practices” because one of the best practices is to be
the first to try a particular technique. If we take the lesson from Fatullayev’s release that Twitter
campaigns, focused on individual public figures who use Twitter, leveraging offline media attention are
a useful strategy, it seems likely that campaign organizations will adopt the technique and use it to the
point where future implementations aren’t worth an article or a blog post.
Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices Co-founder
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/05/27/who-freed-eynulla-fatullayev-and-what-does-his-
release-mean-for-twitter-activism/
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
10 Tactics for Activism
http://www.informationactivism.org/
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Platforms for Engagement
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Russia-Georgia War
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
New & Social Media in Conflict
Anyone who believes that all citizen media are objective and impartial is either mad or hasn't actually
read any citizen media. […] What's become very difficult is using citizen media to understand what's
actually happening on the ground. As we all know, some of the reports from both camps in the South
Ossetian conflict were likely manufactured and inaccurate. This sort of situation can get even more
complicated when there aren't impartial journalists on the ground.
Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices co-founder
http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/13149/
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
New & Social Media in Conflict
http://ceasefireliberia.com/
Ceasefire Liberia
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
http://peace.oneworld.am
Caucasus Conflict Voices
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Positive ResponseMr Krikorian […] found Facebook to be an ideal platform to build ties...
The Economist, A cyber-house divided
http://www.economist.com/node/16943885?story_id=16943885
[…] Onnik Krikorian reports that Facebook has created a space where young Armenians and Azeris
[…] can explore friendships that would never otherwise develop...
CNN, Does Facebook unite us or divide us
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/03/zuckerman.facebook.global/index.html
[…] bloggers such as Onnik Krikorian are overcoming intense nationalist propaganda to establish
contact with the other side of the Karabakh conflict divide. It is still a small movement but […] an
inspiring example...
Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-hayes/2011-outlook-ideas-and-agents
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Questions & Discussion
[…] the internet is not magic; it is a tool. Anyone who wants to use it to bring nations closer together
has to show initiative, and be ready to travel physically as well as virtually. As with the telegraph before
it—also hailed as a tool of peace—the internet does nothing on its own.
The Economist, A cyber-house divided
http://www.economist.com/node/16943885?story_id=16943885
13 August 2011, Istanbul, TurkeyRestoring Confidence of Civil Society Activists through Capacity Building and Education
Links
Global Voices Online
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org
Global Voices Advocacy
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/
Rising Voices
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/
Technology for Transparency
http://transparency.globalvoicesonline.org/
Caucasus Conflict Voices
http://peace.oneworld.am/