Africa/Global: Appropriating the Internet for Social Change

As civil society, we are confronted with an opportunity – to use the Internet and other emerging network technologies to support our quest for global peace and social justice. Consider that we live in a world where almost anyone located in an urban centre can share their message globally with a free blog and a few dollars spent at an Internet café. Access is not– or will not for much longer be – a major communications stumbling block for civil society organisations. The more pressing need is for civil society to learn how to appropriate the technologies that we now have access to, bending and moulding them so that they can be used more strategically and politically.