1. Drupal & Darfur: Building a Movement to End Genocide Phillip Djwa,Agentic Communications August 26 th , 2008

2. Agentic Communications

Agentic Communications Incorporated has the skills, tools, experience, and service excellence to assist progressive organizations to better serve their communities, constituents, and customers online.

Services include web development and strategic planning

3. Phillip Djwa

Phillip, as a career-long social entrepreneur, has more than 15 years experience in the high-technology industry.

Worked on a wide range of technology and web-integrated communications projects for Fortune 500, high-tech start-up, and not-for-profit organizations.

Phillip has a BA from Simon Fraser University in Fine Arts with a concentration in electronic music, and an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

4. What can be done online

• Audiences (expandsphere of influenceand engage existing audience)

• Engage them into taking specific action ( mobilize )

• You canorganize(volunteers, movement)

• Inform audience about the issue ( education )

• You can developcampaigns

5. MovementVS Campaign

A movement has many campaigns i.e. the movement is to prevent genocide, but the specific campaign is Darfur

The web is good at supporting campaigns as it is an excellent tactical arena

6. Campaign Tools

• Content Management System

• Newsletters/Email Listservs

• E-cards

• Donations

• Advocacy Toolkits

• Petitions/Letters to the Editor/ Pledges

• Conference Support

• Membership/Customer RelationshipMgmt/Databases

• Facebook/ Myspace/ Flickr/ Youtube

• Widgets/ Banners

7. Genocide in Darfur

Ongoing genocide launched by the Sudanese government more than four years ago.

Hundreds of thousands have been killed and more than 2.5 million have been displaced. 250,000 were displaced in 2007 alone.

Ongoing bombing and burning villages, looting economic resources, and committing crimes against humanity, such as the murder, rape, and torture of innocent civilians.

8. StandNow

Built in DRUPAL 5.9

Google Mapping

Organic Groups

Panels/View

FCK Editor

CCK

http://StandNow.org 9. Thank you! Questions, please contact Phillip Djwa [email_address] Phone 604-255-2131

Creative Commons Photo Credits:

Kris Krug

http://flickr.com/photos/hdptcar/788600770/

http://flickr.com/photos/wickenden/2069581821/