Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:53:00 -0400 http://www.bligoo.com/ es My Digital Activism Biography http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/119763/My_Digital_Activism_Biography.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:44:56 -0300 http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/119763/My_Digital_Activism_Biography.html Mary In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, a firm which looks at how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in campaigns for social change, particularly 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.

I first became interested in digital activism in 2004-2005 while living in Morocco. It was the fall after my graduation from Vassar College and I was working as a Programs Assistant at the National Democratic Institute in

(Read more)]]> Photos of my consulting job in Nigeria http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/32989/Photos_of_my_consulting_job_in_Nigeria.html Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:42:54 -0300 http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/32989/Photos_of_my_consulting_job_in_Nigeria.html Mary At the beginning of April I went to Lagos, Nigeria, to set up an internet monitoring program for the OpenNet Intiative (ONI), a research consortium that documents internet filtering worldwide. The goal of the project was to see whether the Nigerian government was censoring web content during the elections on April 21. Here are a few shots and here is the final report I wrote.

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me at our testing space in Lagos with the equipment

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defaced election posters on an overpass in Lagos

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a state gubernatorial candidate giving a speech (he lost)

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