In 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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• New! DigiActive.org (our goal is a world of digital activists)
  
• Free Fouad (2008 blog campaign)
  
• Rayt it! (2007 web annotation project)
• Free Monem (2007 blog campaign)
• Free Alaa (2006 blog campaign)
• Demologue (2005-2007 digital democracy project)

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• Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy
  (Global Voices, 2008)
  
  
• The Citizen Journalism Web Site 'OhmyNews' and the 2002 South Korean Presidential Election
  (Internet and Democracy Project, 2007)
  
  
• Internet Watch Report: The 2007 Presidential Elections in Nigeria
  (OpenNet Initiative, 2007)
  
  
• Social Change Technology in the Global South
  (Journal of Information Technology and Social Change, 2007)

• Prospects for e-Advocacy in the Global South
  (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Res Publica, 2006)
  
  
• The Election Blogging Guide
  (Demologue.com, 2006)
  
  
• Morocco Raises Its Voice (Fulbright final report, 2005)
  

"If you think you can influence the agenda, you walk through the world with different eyes and different ears."

-Yochai Benkler

Digital activism means grassroots activists using digital technologies like cell phones and the internet to increase their impact, thus subverting traditional power hierarchies and changing the world.

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