Reporting from the Social Media for Social Change Workshop

 

Hello all! This is a blog called “global pICTure” and it is dedicated for sharing ideas, examples, thoughts and comments on social media, mobile technology and ICT for Development from Plan’s perspective. As you can see, there are already some posts from the MobileActive08  (esp. from Matthias Wevelsiep, the founder of this blog) and now we’ll continue with sharing the most interesting highlights of the Social Media for Social Change Workshop that took place in Nairobi, Kenya 8-12 December. 

The idea is that every week by Monday there will be a new post of one the main themes that were presented and discussed during the workshop (e.g. landscape/overview; mobiles, mapping, advocacy; citizen media and blogging/twitter/etc.; how young people use social media; modernizing plan/modernizing sponsorship.)

You are very welcome to comment any of the posts, discuss and fill in your views. So, instead of posting one big report to the participants, let’s do this in a participatory and interactive way. The comments you post will then influence the next blog report we (Linda Raftree and Mika Välitalo) write.