Digital Voices to Reconstruct Communities By Marlon Parker

What new media tools are available to civil society and which have proved to be the most effective? Is civil society using these tools to ensure mainstream media takeup of these issues?

What new media tools are available to civil society and which have proved to be the most effective?

Is civil society using these tools to ensure mainstream media takeup of these issues?

1. Community

2. Voices

3. What is in you hand?

“ My cell-phone is my tool for change and my ticket to the rest of the world” Rae Goedeman, Unemployed Single Mother Cape Flats

“ My cell-phone is my tool for change and my ticket to the rest of the world”

Rae Goedeman,

Unemployed Single Mother

Cape Flats

“ Using my mobile I can change the world one instant message at a time and leave positive footprints in my community” Brent Williams, Ex-drug dealer and ex-gang member, Cape Flats

“ Using my mobile I can change the world one instant message at a time and leave positive footprints in my community”

Brent Williams,

Ex-drug dealer and ex-gang member, Cape Flats

4. Digital Voices Bucket

5. Reconstructing Communities

Social Media for Social Change www.thereconstructed.com www.mom2zero.com

What the Community did in 12 months 1600+ Blog Posts Engagement from every continent Daily Engagement 25,000+ Connections 50,000+ “Tweets”

1600+ Blog Posts

Engagement from every continent

Daily Engagement

25,000+ Connections

50,000+ “Tweets”

Who listened?

“ Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama

“ Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Barack Obama

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