Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta’s Weblog 
Last week, I attended the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore, on 17 June 2009, in collaboration with the Liberty Institute, New Delhi.
The discussion was really interesting, and I do hope it is the start of many [...]
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Tactical Tech and Aspiration are organizing a week-long event in Bangalore, India in February 2009 - The Info-Activism Camp. Deadline for applications has been extended to Nov 8th.
The Info Activism camp (http://www.informationactivism.org), to be held in Bangalore, India from February 19th to 25th, helps advocates to make the best use of information, communication [...]
November seems to be full of online activism days and weeks! Today’s the Buy Nothing Day, here’s another one - to end Violence Against Women:
Cheekay Cinco of APC Women writes to inform me of this campaign to end violence against women. This is a collaborative campaign by ICT users, advocates, collectives and organisations [...]
Aparna Ray, in a post at Global Voices Online links to several blogs that are trying to garner aid and resources to help victims of Cyclone Sidr. [Image on right courtesy BBC News]. Towards the end of the post, she shares this simple yet cool use of SMS to get people to donate:
Bangla [...]
A commenter who calls himself/herself ‘takeaction’ left this information at my earlier post where I expressed my horror at the blatant role of the Modi Government and its allies in the Gujarat 2002 riots:
“I think people of India and Indian diaspora can do something beyond just discussing this in egroups and blogs. The [...]
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