Panel discussion organized by the Association for International Affairs on Monday, October 22, in cooperation with the Forum 2000 Foundation within this year’s Forum 2000 Conference “Media and Democracy”. Can we really speaking of electronic democratic activism? How far did Arab and European initiatives
meet and enhance each other?
Last year’s Arab protests demanding more citizen involvement in politics and have highlighted the power of the open and innovative electronic communication. New crowsourced media are not just free information canals. They facilitate mobilization and function as agenda-making platforms and watchdogs.
As such, they multiply possibilities of citizen participation in public affairs. They are particularly crucial in countries with limited civic freedoms and those on a transition path. Even our more or less consolidated democracies in Central and Eastern Europe see themselves confronted with the challenge of enhancing citizen participation in decision making and of limiting the effects of corruption.
What model of democracy do media activists strive to? Which models of electronic activism have succeeded? What are the limits of mobilization through electronic media?
Speakers include:
- Tarik Nesh Nash, Electronic Activist, Mamdawrinch/Transparency Morocco
- Sava Tatić, Managing Director, Sourcefabric, Czech Republic/Serbia
- Jaroslav Valůch, New Media Expert,People in Need, Czech Republic
- Min Yan Naing, Co-founder, Generation Wave, Burma/Myanmar
- Date and time
Monday
October 22, 2012
12:00-13:30- Location
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
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Praha 1 - Organizer
- AMO
- In cooperation with
- Forum 2000
- WORKING LANGUAGES
- English