AC Forum Featured Debate: Technologies of Mobilization
This is the fourth of our series profiling all the workshops held this year at the Alternative Channel Forum on Social Networking and Responsible Media. Each workshop features leading experts on the most interesting and controversial issues related to the new media's responsibility to social awareness and humanitarian causes. Register to attend now, or join us for LIVE BLOG coverage beginning with the first panel and lasting all day.
11.00 will see the curtain drawn on the day’s most technologically-focused debate, Social Networks, ICT & Worldwide Mobilization. The panelists will discuss the technological aspects of new media’s ability to mobilize and empower worldwide. Our guests will converge on Barcelona from the globe’s reaches near and far.
Jordi Duran is with the Alternative Channel associated organization and our co-host iWith.org. This foundation seeks information and communications technology (ICT) solutions for non-profit organizations.
Joining us from London is Kevin Darling of Amnesty International. Mr Darling will showcase and elucidate his Facebook campaign Reach out for Kenya.
Amy Weesner comes to Barcelona from the Office of the Chief Information Technology Officer at the United Nations Secretariat in New York.
Finally Johan Farid Khairuddin joins us from Kuala Lumpur as representative of the Asia Pacific region. His blog best showcases this young man’s highly mobile and protean style of engagement; he is best known as a radio DJ in KL.
The debate will be moderated by Josep Lluís Cano, a lecturer at Barcelona’s renowned business school ESADE and author of the recent book Business Intelligence: competir con información (Compete with Information).
Have an opinion about the role of technology in establishing the frontiers of new media? Would you like to ask our panelists a question? Leave a comment and we'll seek answers in Barcelona on 30 April.
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