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Bio

livingroom_100x113.jpgIn 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting,  which specializes in the analysis of how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in social change campaigns in developing countries.  I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship.  I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing. 

You can contact me at MaryCJoyce AT gmail DOT com.

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Social Change Technology in the Global South

Posted by Mary on 19/01/2008 at 20:59

JITSC_300px.jpgIn the spring of 2007 I was given the opportunity to write an article for the premiere issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Social Change, which is published jointly by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and the Gilbert Center. My article, "Leapfrogging Borders: Social Change Technology in the Global South and its Implications for American NTAPs," gives an overview of the field of social change technology in the global south and analyzes its implications for American non-profit technology assistance providers (NTAPs). I argue that I gave a talk about the paper via video at the the 2007 NTEN conference in Washington DC.

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