Archive for March 2009
ETech Freetech: Hitesh from Grroup on tech in social activism
- hitesh and friend were in mumbai at the time of the attacks
- started facebook: “ending terrorism with non-violence”
- started wondering bout how to empower all these groups
- talked w/ 20+ groups
- how can these groups help each other?
- how can they form one achievable goal?
- what is available now in terms of tech?
– digg-style lists
– obama’s campaign methods
— this is actually hitesh’s inspiration. They talked with Chris Hughes. the common goal was to get obama elected, but they used various different methods.
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- “causes” app on facebook focuses on generating money and members, but Hitesh’s goal is different: how to opensource the social movement
- can you think of a person who emerged frim the noise w/o having a pre-existing political presence? (Christine)
– generating “cult of personality around a change-maker”
– do online tools accelerate or are they the genesis?
