The Collaborative Activist
Event date: Feb 15
7-9 p.m.at Bento Miso
Engagement, Collaboration and Community Building in Advocacy Work
Presented by commons11 for Social Media Week Toronto 2012
This panel will discuss how activists are leveraging social media to build community within their respective movements and collaborating with open source technology communities in creating useful web and mobile applications. The event will be a participatory dialogue between the panel and the audience on using social media and technology for social good. Join our panelists Jode Roberts (David Suzuki Foundation), Andrew Lovett Baron (Normative Design), Hilary Best and Alex Felipe (BAYAN) in a discussion moderated by Melanie Gorka (commons11).
commons11: a social change agency was founded in Toronto in 2011. commons11 facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration to come up with innovative solutions to social challenges.