Social Media and a New Model of Civic Engagement

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Social Media and a New Model of Civic Engagement in Myanmar

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Facebook Twitter Hi5 NING

Whatelse?

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social media is creating new

enhancing the tools used by existing ones

the way citizens are interacting with each other and organizations.

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decreased the barriers of entry for citizens to have their voices heard

take action on an issue.

Why in Myanmar?(Entry barriers)

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You and I

able to easily take small

simple actions without much effort.

an extraordinary impact

What do you think impact in Myanmar?

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Facebook applications - Cause

you to support a cause

announce it to your network.

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Twitter - hashtag

Tweeting - important to you.

A hashtag is a # sign followed by a term — i.e. #campaignfinancereform

Allows people to read all the tweets on a subject at once.

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Compound of Crowd and a short for Outsourcing,

The tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor,

Outsourcing them to a group of people or community,

through an "open call" to a large group of people (a crowd) asking for contributions.

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Historically, English has been “the language of the Internet”

Not the case anymore!

However, world’s linguistic diversity not represented on the Internet

Further global growth needs linguistic diversity

Getting the next billion(s) online will need linguistic diversity

The next billion(s) online will demand linguistic diversity

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The Internet is: a major source of information depository of knowledge the communications and business medium

Internet available for everyone Internet used by everyone requires

linguistic diversity!

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Unicode Content

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Social media, Crowdsourcing and Multilingualism

keystones to the bridge

You and Global

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