empowering indonesian civil society through icts shita laksmi director, ad interim, hivos regional...
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Empowering Indonesian civil society through ICTs
Shita Laksmi
Director, ad interim, Hivos
Regional Office, Southeast Asia
Structure of the presentation
•About Hivos
•Briefly about the mandate
•Stories from the ground
•Discussion
Hivos, in brief
Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, wants to contribute to a fair, free and sustainable world.
Together with local organisations in developing countries, Hivos strives for a world in which all citizens – both men and women – have equal access to resources and opportunities for development.
Hivos programs: Rights and Citizenship, Expression and Engagement and Green Entrepreurship
The mandate, in ICT
ICT seen as part as strengthening the platform for the free expression of ideas about development of democratic and plural society
Strategic Use of ICT
The way we work- Scanning initiatives
- Partnership (financial support, cooperation, advocacy)
- Tailor made technical assistance
- Facilitating, networking
Stories from the groundICT and Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxplPEPiGQg
Stories from the groundJalin Merapi
Jalin Merapi is an integrated information system in response to the Merapi eruption.
Integrated: community radio, phone, SMS, twitter, facebook, instant messenger
The web
The web
Jalin Merapi
Significant components of Jalin Merapi
-Shared values
-Community radio stations
-800 volunteers
-Coordinated efforts
-Mobile infrastructures, connectivity and social media
Stories from the groundICT Trajectories
Trajectory: this program offers long term capacity building activities.
ICT Trajectories which focus on three different points: Information Management, Communication Strategy and Technology
ICT Trajectories
LKIS: Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Transformasi Sosial
-Identity
-Brought up the need to have systemized way of communication
-Programs: - Scale up the web- Database management
Discussion
•ICTs, whether it is Internet or social media is influencing the way civil society organizations works•The term ‘strategic use’ (and use the technology without reservation)
Discussion
• Difficult to scale up tailor made approach is unique
• The engagement, the relevance are important variable for success
