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Author
Terence D. Gibson
Title
It's not just the data: Participatory monitoring and the most significant change
Type
Conference Article
Year
2010
Publication
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings
Abbreviated Journal
ISCRAM 2010
Volume
Issue
Pages
Keywords
Information systems
;
Networks (circuits)
;
Access to resources
;
Disaster reduction
;
Disaster risk reductions
;
Participatory monitoring
;
Political influences
;
Social movements
;
Technical aspects
;
Transnational networks
;
Disasters
Abstract
Overlaying the technical aspects of participative communications and network design is the question 'how they can secure social change?' Social change is a political act. How can transnational networks gain political influence for local groupings at the national and international level? The Global Network for Disaster Reduction has undertaken a large scale 'participatory monitoring' project with the intended aim of using an activist 'social network' to create 'social demand': influencing policy and implementation within the UN.s framework for disaster reduction. While the project achieved its intended goals, the unintended impacts of the project are argued to be at least as significant; revealing ways that networks can create 'political space' at the local level which can influence policy and access to resources at the national and international level. This paper is presented from a practitioner perspective, linking practice to theoretical work on transnational social movements and participative communications.
Address
Global Network for Disaster Reduction, United Kingdom
Corporate Author
Thesis
Publisher
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Place of Publication
Seattle, WA
Editor
S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel
Language
English
Summary Language
English
Original Title
Series Editor
Series Title
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Series Volume
Series Issue
Edition
ISSN
2411-3387
ISBN
Medium
Track
Humanitarian Challenges
Expedition
Conference
7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Notes
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no
Call Number
Serial
527
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