Transcript for 10 tactics promotional video

We asked 50 human rights advocates

what is info-activism?

It's about using new spaces that have opened up because of the internet and new media as well

even cheaper forms of digital technology whether it's video or other platforms such as online publishing

It has to be people-centred. It has to be participatory

and it has to involve the strategic use of different communication tools

And we asked

how have you

turned information into action?

Torture crimes were rarely mentioned on television

So torture in Egypt highlighted it

A project I was involve with

was the featured layers on the Darfur crisis in Google Earth

It greatly raised awareness of the issues there

We developed a system that uses short code SMS

and we get people sending in queries about the amount of money that has been allocated for projects

One of the things we did was to help people find out where to vote

Using technologies you can combine the collective voice of people

During that period when we started we discovered different uses for it

In organising relief work and in facilitating reconstruction later on

The fact that 700 people got together and took a rally out

was a great thing and it was one of the biggest impacts that we've had

By making people laugh about dangerous stuff

like dictatorship, oppression, censorship

that became like a narrative platform to build an actual movement

that is demanding democratic reform

and it's about making use of all these new spaces to do

you know, to do old fashioned activism

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24 countries

10 tactics

for turning information into action