Digital Voices To Reconstruct Communities

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?

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

“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”

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

Thank You

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