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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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The Citizen Journalism Web Site 'OhmyNews' and the 2002 South Korean Presidential Election

Posted by Mary on 15/01/2008 at 15:00
sk-paper_300.jpgI wrote this report for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The paper investigates the influence of the citizen journalism Web site OhmyNews during the 2002 South Korean Presidential election. It begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of citizen journalism and the importance of an independent media to democracy. It next moves to a discussion of the motivation for the creation of OhmyNews by Oh Yeon Ho and its innovative model for producing and moderating citizen-generated news. It then discusses how real world activism may have contributed to (Read more)
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ONI Report on the 2007 Presidential Elections in Nigeria

Posted by Mary on 31/12/2007 at 23:25

nigeria.jpgIn April of this year I was hired by the OpenNet Initiative to go to Lagos, Nigeria, to install election-monitoring software which tested whether the government was filtering the Internet during the presidential elections. (No filtering was found, either during the elections or in the two weeks preceding, though several sites were down at times because of faulty infrastructure.) Here is the final version of the report I wrote. You can download it by clicking on the image on the left or by clicking the link below.

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The Election Blogging Guide

Posted by Mary on 10/08/2007 at 23:58

electionguide.jpgBack in 2006 I wrote The Election Blogging Guide with Solana Larsen and Zephyr Teachout. At the time we wrote it, Solana was an editor at openDemocracy, and now she is also co-managing editor at Global Voices. Zephyr Teachout was Director of Online Organizing for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign and also worked with the Sunlight Foundation. Basically, these two women are rock stars and I am honored to have worked with them.

We decided to write the guide because blogs are a new forum for political expression and engagement. They offer a space for freer speech

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Prospects for e-Advocacy in the Global South

Posted by Mary on 04/07/2007 at 3:00

 

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I wrote this 110-page report in 2007 for Res Publica, the New York NGO which created Avaaz.org. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had hired Res Publica to write a report outlining possible funding options that the Gates Foundation could undertake to help NGOs and movements in the global south better use ICTs for advocacy. Res Publica hired me as the lead researcher and writer for this report.

The report includes an overview of the challenges for digital activists in the global south followed by different e-advocacy models, recent innovations in global south e-advocacy, and finally a long list

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Photos of my consulting job in Nigeria

Posted by Mary on 05/05/2007 at 10:33

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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