[cma-l] Funding: The Young Foundation is seeking partners for its Digital Activism programme (England)

[Tamar Millen]

Digital Activism (May 2011)

The Young Foundation is seeking partners for its Digital Activism 
programme, which launched in March 2011. This is a two year programme 
funded through the Big Lottery's People Powered Change activities.

Our aim for the Digital Activism strand of work is to support 
communities across the country to use digital technology to build 
community activism.

We believe that digital technologies, ranging from social media like 
Facebook and Twitter through to smart phones and digital video, have the 
potential to galvanise local communities to take action on the issues 
that matter to them.

This could be through community campaigning, lobbying local institutions 
or business to act, or by encouraging local people to change their own 
attitudes or behaviours in order to improve local quality of life.

By practically supporting six communities across England, we hope to 
understand more about the role that technology can play in connecting 
and mobilising local communities to act, and to share good practice and 
lessons with other communities across the country.

http://www.youngfoundation.org/news/digital-activism-may-2011
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.commedia.org.uk