Tag: social media activism

Black Lives Matter and its importance to international development

Three women running a movement that is uniting activists to participate in online and offline protests, addressing inequality, and pushing for social and political change is powerful. The Black Lives Matter movement is teaching us how a social movement can initiate social change, combine digital activism with traditional protests and …

black lives matter / Collective action / com4dev / digital activism / ICT4D / social media activism / Social movements

Creating change through online and offline activism

Black Lives Matter isn’t the first social movement to engage an international audience, create political and public engagement by using social media. Both the Fridays for Future movement (with Greta Thunberg in the lead), the Arabic Spring and #IWillGoOut have led the way in showing how social media can engage …

black lives matter / digital activism / Digital inequality / ICT4D / social media activism / Social movements