This document announces a meeting of HackDemocracy Brussels to discuss online and offline activism with the Indignados movement. It provides contact information for HackDemocracy Brussels and thanks the speakers and host locations. The document indicates that today's speakers will discuss the Indignados movement's use of technology for global coordination, share perspectives on e-democracy, and provide insights into tensions between legitimacy and efficiency when online and offline activism converge.

1. #HackDemocracy Brussels
Online and offline activism
with the Indignados movement
29.11.2011
brussels@hackdemocracy.org

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6. Today
Online and offline activism with
the Indignados movement

7. Without the internet,
unthinkable at this speed and on this scale.

8. “You can think of group undertaking as a kind of
ladder of activities. The rungs on the ladder are
sharing, cooperation, and collective action. The
three activities [are] enhanced through social
tools.”
- Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

9. All of these tools have led to a rise in e-activism.
Petition websites are just one small example.
And then there’s FB, Twitter, Skype, ...

10. But how does e-activism fit into the picture of
more traditional militancy?
Are they embracing technology? Is e-activism
just a lazy and less legitimate form of couch-
activism? Or is it the only way to do activism
efficiently?

11. Today’s speakers
will talk about the movement's use of
technology for coordinating around the world,
will share their personal perspective on e-
democracy
will give us some insights into the tensions that
can arise between legitimacy and efficiency,
when online and offline activism converge