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Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause
Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause is a set of strategic guides to using communications tools for social change, together with a suite of open source tools to get you making your own media.
The toolkit is designed for small and medium-sized NGOs, advocates, and citizen journalists to help them create and distribute content for their advocacy efforts while exploring the constantly evolving world of campaigning and communications.
Maps for Advocacy: An Introduction to Geographical Mapping Techniques
Smog, fast-vanishing forest space, protest marches, human rights abuses and myriad such events and activities need constant attention and backing. Highlighting such issues is no more a herculean task for advocacy groups. Information, communication and digital technologies have smoothened out processes and systems and contain techniques and tools which, if appropriately used, can easily bring about phenomenal change.
Mobiles in-a-box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy
Our new toolkit, Mobiles in-a-box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy (http://mobiles.tacticaltech.org/) - is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to inspire advocacy organisations and present possibilities for the use of mobile telephony in their work. From choosing an audience, to privacy and security issues and also countering technological challenges, Mobiles in-a-box provides effective solutions to enable you get started with using mobiles in your advocacy efforts.
The tactics discussed in this toolkit revolve around the following scenarios which many advocates find themselves dealing with: outreach and participation, fundraising and resource mobilisation, people's media, and coordinating and mobilising.
The toolkit also explores the possibility of mixing mobile advocacy with other media like the internet where the aim is to broaden the scope for information gathering and dissemination. It provides useful tips to ensure privacy while also helping scale your mobile advocacy efforts to the resources your organisation has available. Through inspiring case studies from around the world, the toolkit shows how mobile telephony has made a difference to varied areas of activism - from election monitoring to tracking environmental destruction.
In addition to the toolkit we will also undertake the following:
- Providing technical training for non-profit technologists in the global South to increase their ability to utilise and further develop tools and services specifically for their environment
- Exploring possibilities to extend and further develop mobile applications and services for use by advocates. This will include adapting and extending existing services for dynamically managing and tracking information, and systems for integrating voice-based-response services in to advocacy efforts.
For more information about the toolkit or to order a copy, please write to mobiles@tacticaltech.org
Mobiles in-a-box is now also available in French.
Mobiles in-a-box - Outils et tactiques pour le plaidoyer par téléphone mobile
5 Resourceful Sites NGOs Can’t Live Without
iCommons recently named Tactical Tech and its NGO-in-a-box project as one of "5 Resourceful Sites NGOs Can’t Live Without". Check out the article on the iCommons blog.