I can has company?

[mstakenidentity]

I've just reserved myself a ticket for this:

Online Activism and civic engagement


With the advent of Web 2.0, online networking is on the rise. How can the new technologies be used for civic engagement and activism - and is online activism effective?

Panel members :
Karen Farquharson, Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society
Anna Helme, EngageMedia
Andrew Asten, Schools4Schools, Oaktree Foundation
Scott Rippon, One Laptop Per Child

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Experimedia, State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Bookings: 8664 7555 or learning@slv.vic.gov.au
Book online!

This is a free event but bookings are required.

mc_shamo? rin_tin_tin_? Could be good for us.

Anyone else want to come?

Comments

[reallyedbrown.livejournal.com]

How did it go?
I wanted to come, but there wasn't a lot of notice and I couldn't fit it in.

Any good? And is that what 'wowed' Shamo?

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

It was good actually. I enjoyed it, and one of the dudes managed to convince me enough to donate to his org, so that means it must have been good!

Not what wowed Seamus though, that was someone other than me and the other cast members liking his script :-)

[reallyedbrown.livejournal.com]

Cool! Can I ask which org?

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

Oaktree Foundation. They have a program which matches Australian schools to African schools, the kids use Facebook and other sites to keep in contact with each other, and actually get to know the kids on the other side of the world. Some of the stuff was really interesting- if frustrating- like how in some developing African countries schools will actually be provided with a pc (from charity or the government), but not the electricity with which to make it work...