“Our abillity to make change is rooted in our ability to reach people in new and different ways.” “We think therefore we are. The future is us.”
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We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Ideas take life when they are shared. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.
It’s also at the heart of why the web should be good for : democracy, by giving more people a voice and the ability to organise themselves; freedom, by giving more people the opportunity to be creative and equality, by allowing knowledge to be set free.
We think therefore we are. The future is us.
Hi Noel, this great emphasis on relationships is so key to our human rights work and to who we are as advocates. Our abillity to make change is rooted in our ability to reach people in new and different ways.
The New Tactics project has a great resource that was developed by Callie Persic about Interaction Belfast’s work on our website that I’d like to let people know about. Callie presented your mobile phone network at our New Tactics International Symposium in Ankara, Turkey in 2004. The link to the workshop materials where her PowerPoint presentation with pictures of the “peacewall”, the community divistions and so many other photos that provide the context you have and continue to work in. In addition, two other examples of how mobile phones have been used in the Netherlands and in Palestine can be found at the WK 214: Mobile Phones: Communicating for Action.
Nancy Pearson, New Tactics Program Manager
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideasMark Kingwell and Malcolm Gladwell
ON AIR: Saturday, June 27 – 04:00 PM
MARK KINGWELL AND MALCOLM GLADWELL
Noted University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell square off in a lively debate about social change and how best to achieve it. See each present a short fifteen minute lecture, followed by an engaging and sometimes heated dialogue, moderated by Avril Benoit.
