File this under: Timing is still everything. Just in time to help organize Egyptian grassroots activists with restored Internet access, the Alliance for Youth Movements (Aym) has rebranded itself as Movements.org, an online hub for digital activists.
The site features all sorts of tips for activists in countries with restricted Internet access, including ideas on how to remain connected in the event of an Internet disruption, how to access blocked websites, and how to boost Facebook security.
To be sure, these are all pieces of advice that can be found on other sites, but Movements.org also offers case studies for activists involved in digital organizing, as well as "how tos" on everything from holding a successful offline event to creating a podcast on the go.
The Aym has a history of creating change--in 2008, a summit organized by the Aym included leaders of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement, a protest...
The site features all sorts of tips for activists in countries with restricted Internet access, including ideas on how to remain connected in the event of an Internet disruption, how to access blocked websites, and how to boost Facebook security.
To be sure, these are all pieces of advice that can be found on other sites, but Movements.org also offers case studies for activists involved in digital organizing, as well as "how tos" on everything from holding a successful offline event to creating a podcast on the go.
The Aym has a history of creating change--in 2008, a summit organized by the Aym included leaders of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement, a protest...
- 2/3/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
The youngest ever member of the Policy Planning staff showed the State Department how to use technology for diplomacy. Now Cohen's going to see if some of the thorniest foreign policy issues can be tackled from the private sector.
Jared Cohen joined Google last week as the director of its newly created Google Ideas “think/do tank”—an entity whose objective is to dream up and try out ideas that address the challenges of counterterrorism, counterradicalism, and nonproliferation, as well as innovations for development and citizen empowerment. He has also landed a side gig as an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on innovation, technology, and statecraft.
Google has now hired Cohen to set up Google Ideas, which will look for innovative approaches to some of the stickiest international issues of the day. Out of his New York office, Cohen will, he told Foreign Policy, seek to...
Jared Cohen joined Google last week as the director of its newly created Google Ideas “think/do tank”—an entity whose objective is to dream up and try out ideas that address the challenges of counterterrorism, counterradicalism, and nonproliferation, as well as innovations for development and citizen empowerment. He has also landed a side gig as an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on innovation, technology, and statecraft.
Google has now hired Cohen to set up Google Ideas, which will look for innovative approaches to some of the stickiest international issues of the day. Out of his New York office, Cohen will, he told Foreign Policy, seek to...
- 10/18/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
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