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Presented at the 4th Digital Citizen Indaba workshop in Grahamstown.
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Digital Voices to Reconstruct Communities
By Marlon Parker
What new media tools are available to civil society and which have proved to be the
most effective?
Is civil society using these tools to ensure mainstream media takeup of these
issues?
1. Community
2. Voices
3. What is in you hand?
“My cell-phone is my tool for change and my ticket to the rest
of the world” Rae Goedeman,
Unemployed Single Mother
Cape Flats
“Using my mobile I can change the world one instant message at a
time and leave positive footprints in
my community” Brent Williams,
Ex-drug dealer and ex-gang member, Cape Flats
4. Digital Voices Bucket
5. Reconstructing Communities
Social Media for Social Change
www.thereconstructed.com www.mom2zero.com
What the Community did in 12 months
1600+ Blog Posts
Engagement from every continent
Daily Engagement
25,000+ Connections
50,000+ “Tweets”
Who listened?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that
we seek.” Barack Obama
Thank You
www.marlonparker.co.za
Marlon Parker
@marlonparker
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