digital transformation and the role of civil society in sri lanka
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Digital transformation and the role of civil society in Sri Lanka
Sanjana HattotuwaCentre for Policy AlternativesTED Fellow Alumn
media landscape what’s out there today
1.13 billion daily active users on average for June 2016
350 million photos uploaded every day
Approximately 84.5% of daily active users are outside the US and Canada
• Not everyone needs to be connected to web to be influenced by it
• The influence of content on social media in particular, and online content in general, extends to groups well beyond those who are directly connected to, and participating in these online networks.
• This also puts to rest the often quoted myth that since Internet penetration is relatively low in the country, content shared online has little to no footprint in the larger public consciousness.
mobile first design and develop for mobile
CSO & digital activism three key drivers
unlimited storage bounded only by imagination
broadband faster and cheaper web access
smartphones ubiquitous production
what’s new?
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• People as producers
• Low resolution, hyperlocal helps focus and granularity
• Aggregation of low resolution helps macro analysis and strategy
instagram mobile photography
everydaysrilanka rotation curation, multiple perspectives
abdul halik-azziz research, insight, perspective and photography
abdul halik-azziz research, insight, perspective and photography
right to the city instagram for activism
whatsapp instant messaging for advocacy
remembering the politics of memory online
visualising hidden narratives
The end of warZero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
Mass gravesFrom 2009 to end of 2011
storytelling new ways of voicing the inconvenient
identity using video for activism
elections monitoring, voter education, mobilisation, alerts
online video using video for activism
drone video using drones for situation awareness, perspective
360 video immersive content
facebook live live feed from anywhere
facebook live global phenomenon
facebook video going viral over mobile
facebook video long-tail, high engagement
critical questions who controls the content?
constant partial attention a tsunami of information
the dopamine effect less is more?
activism vs. surveillance the tension between privacy and advocacy
identity onlinethe tension between anonymity leading to trolling, and need for anonymity
crisis of the imaginationinability to envision creative ways of engaging, without funding
slacktivism how do you move from clicks to meaningful engagement?
Their stories matterTech secondary
