A two days workshop, in Florence, is organized by the Robert Kennedy Foundation Europe, to discuss about social media, human rights and the notion of smart dissidents.
Before the event, a chat with Daudi Kahmadi Were, from Ushahidi, has been a joy. He was talking about what it means to improve the notion of “civic society” and he was very interested in the MediaLab‘s (and Ahref‘s) notion of “civic media”.
It can be a conceptual framework for improving the cultural environment for smart dissidents that fight for human rights and live in danger because of the authoritarian regimes in which they live: it is not only a matter of technology, it is much more a matter of meaning, methodology and public understanding of their contribution. It is about non-violent and civic-aware actions.
The Robert Kennedy Foundation idea, with the help of the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, it working to make Le Murate, in Flocence, a sort of service hub for a network designed to help dissidents all over the world in a hopefully non-naive way. It is going to be a tough and delicate job. It is absolutely not only a technological matter. It is much more a cultural matter. And, since quite some time, Evgeny Morozov teaches how it can be difficult to design this kind of service in a sensible way.
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