Webinar "New approaches, tools, and technologies for advocacy in civil society networks and coalitions"

Webinar "New approaches, tools, and technologies for advocacy in civil society networks and coalitions"

2020-04-14

Webinar "New approaches, tools, and technologies for advocacy in civil society networks and coalitions", April 9th 2020. As a global CSO network committed to fostering innovation in its advocacy and other areas of work, Forus was very pleased to jointly host this webinar with ISEG, the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon. Our two guests, Princess Bazley-Bethea from Forus member InterAction and Jen Castro from US-based NGO Digital Democracy, showed us how they have been innovating in advocacy by using new processes, tools, and technologies to empower grass-roots movements, strengthen civil society coalitions, and turn network advocacy into more efficient and effective action. =========================== 00:02 – Introduction by Forus Deirdre de Burca and ISEG’s Ana Luísa Silva 07:46 – Princess Bazley-Bethea speaks about InterAction’s advocacy initiative The Together Project 22:33 – Jen Castro presents Digital Democracy’s community mapping tool Mapeo 36:10 – Q&A session 50:35 – Closing remarks ===========================