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The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights is a broad issue area with urgent funding needs around the globe.  Explore the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/ to find stories and media projects that probe and ...

ITF's "New Interactive Media for Progressive Change Initiative" Awards First $250,000 in Grants

January 29, 2010 -- A total of 7 nonprofit organizations were recently awarded a total of $250,000 for grants submitted online to the New Interactive Media for Progressive Change Initiative ...

Community Radio Reaches Out in Haiti

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, January 27, 2010]
"Much has been made about the role flashier technologies like Twitter, Skype and text messaging have played in helping disaster victims find loved ones and communicate with international aid ...

The Clinton Internet Doctrine: Internet Access is the New Freedom of Assembly

[Source: Change.org, by Nathaniel Whittemore; January 22, 2010] If freedom of speech gives people the right to express their viewpoints, freedom of assembly gives people the right to ...

Social Media and CrisisCamp Disaster Response: Humane Communications Over Human Networks

[Source: Jonah Bossewitch; January 16, 2010]Update: This discussion has now been transformed into an actual project proposal at the Crisis Commons wiki – the Haitian Video Postcard Exchange Project.

Twitter Provides a Conduit for News from Quake-Devastated Haiti

[Source: San Jose Mercury News, by Patrick May; January 13, 2010]

Social Media Aids Efforts to Help Victims of Earthquake in Haiti

[Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy, by Caroline Preston, January 13, 2010]
People interested in helping victims of the earthquake that wracked Haiti are being encouraged to text and tweet their donations and publicize their support using the new technologies. At the same ...
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Broadband Touted As 'Civil Right' at FCC Public Hearing

[Source: CongressDaily, by Sara Jerome; December 14, 2009] Broadband advocates, civil rights activists, and FCC officials described high-speed Internet service as a ...

Mobiles Hidden in Monks' Robes

[Source: MobileActive.org, by Emily Jacobi; November 3, 2009]