A toolkit for e-collectivism

The BBC World Service is an important resource in creating e-voice capabilities: a demonstration of the ways in which BBC resources can be harnessed by grass root organisations at very little cost is given through the links immediately below.

An e-voice: the potential for challenge from Africa:
a BBC broadcast by Professor Nana Apt (virtual voyager on the Odyssey 2000 and host of next year's Odyssey in Accra, Ghana), Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Nana provides an important analysis of the plight of street children in Africa: further materials can be obtained at http://www.oocities.org/african_alternatives/streetchildren.

Challenging the global order E-voices from BBC invited guests

 The New Europe: the Internet in Europe A BBC broadcast on e-opportunities for communication with a musical twist.

A runaway world: Anthony Giddens as Reith Lecturer A set of lectures on Globalisation delivered by Anthony Giddens, Director of the LSE. A possible critique of these lectures is that the protocol of delivering them in a range of elite global locations reinforced rather than reduced hierarchy. Locating the lectures in e-space can assist in reversing this dynamic. Debate the issues involved in globalisation with Anthony Giddens through your e-voice

E-collective practices: the existing evidence:

• The fuel tax protests, 2000
  scenes from the UK and links to Uk and international websites
  
• "The power of transparency: the Internet, e-mail, and the Malaysian political crisis".
  Margaret Grieco and Len Holmes
• "Electronic governance and commercial development in Africa: the grassroots perspective".
  Paper presented at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, September 2nd, 1999 and at the Ghana Computer Learning and Distance Education Conference, Accra, Ghana, 2000
• "E-Collectivism": Paper prepared for the E-Business and E-Work Conference, Madrid, October 18-20, 2000, by Anne-marie Greene, John Hogan and Margaret Grieco
  

E-collective practices: the tools

• Lyceum: synchronous conferencing on the web
  The Odyssey Group has been trialling a tool developed at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute which allows shared whiteboards and audio conferencing over a single Internet link
• event histories: multiple voicing
  A set of websites recounting events in labour history through the voices of the communities and individuals involved
  
  
• Recovering the past: the UNL pilot journey
  A case study in overcoming problems of transience in accessibility to web-based information: UK Global Learn Day II
  

Models and Approaches in e-collectivism

• Direct Action - site provides suggestions on taking non-violent direction action on ecological issues
  
• Organising against youth curfews
• Global Knowledge
• International Labour Solidarity Web Site
• Skye and Kyle Against Tolling campaign