All entries tagged: Amnesty International
Denise Searle: Blogging or flogging? Why NGOs face challenges in embracing the Internet’s potential
[The Internet opens up new means of communications for major NGOs. But does it also make their position vulnerable to a new breed of web-native upstarts, who understand the power of technology more fully? Denise Searle, who has worked with some of the world's best known NGOs, explores that in this, the final part of [...]
Saving us from noise that kills: NGOs as news coordinators in a networked public sphere
[Journalists concerned about the future of the news business tend to worry about important issues receiving a decreasing amount of coverage. But what if the problem is less the amount of coverage but the assembling, filtering, and sorting of that coverage? Is there a role for a new class of news coordinators? Our friend Lokman [...]
