huridocs-tech Assisting Internet-based Advocacy Efforts

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Subject: [DW] Assisting Internet-based Advocacy Efforts


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If you are aware of similar assistance projects elsewhere on the
political spectrum or in other countries, drop me a note
<do@publicus.net>.

Steven Clift
Democracies Online Newswire


From:
http://www.progressivetech.org/About/mission.htm

  Mission and Goals:

The Progressive Technology Project (PTP) is a new collaboration that
seeks to raise the scope and scale of technology resources available
to grassroots organizing groups working for environmental, economic,
and social justice. PTP provides technical assistance and makes
grants to develop the capacity of grassroots organizing groups to use
information technology to strengthen their social change efforts.
PTP's goals include:

Build the capacity of grassroots groups to sustain new technology
skills that advance their ability to improve the quality of people's
lives

Explore, create and share models of technology use that increase the
organization's power and effectiveness by adding value to grassroots
organizing

Develop a program of technical assistance to address the unique needs
that grassroots organizations face in their use of technology

Leverage resources to support the use of information technologies by
grassroots organizations

Create a place for strategic discussions about the relationship
between grassroots organizing and technology

Many people and communities are being left behind by the growing
divide between those who have access to information technologies and
those who don't. Grassroots groups in particular have not been able
to take advantage of the powerful potential that technology offers to
advance their work. PTP works to support the development of skills,
capacities and best practices that enable communities and
organizations most often left out of the information economy to
harness the potential of technology. PTP exists to build an
infrastructure that supports grassroots groups' use of information
technologies to strengthen their efforts to create just communities.

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