Times Of Cental Asia - First social media summit ends in Afghanistan. The political factor. Updated: Tue, Sep 24 2013. 11 56 PM IST Mumbai: One expected the panelists to pull out their boxing gloves, but the session on the Role of Social Media in Politics, on day three of the Social Media Week in Mumbai, turned out to be fairly civil.
The panel—which included Priti Gandhi, head of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) communication cell in Mumbai; Mayank Gandhi, head for the Aam Admi Party in Mumbai; Priyanka Chaturvedi, national spokesperson for the All India Congress Committee; Gul Panag, actor and activist; and Dilip Chalil, secretary, Congress, Mumbai—discussed the importance and impact of the new medium on their parties and on their communication strategy .
Afghanistan holds social media summit. Kabul - As internet use in urban centres and amongst youth booms, Afghanistan is set to host its first-ever social media summit, with organizers promoting the websites as democratic tools for engaging citizens and communities in the war-torn country.
Called "Paiwand", which means "connection" in the local Dari language, the event is slated for 22 - 23 September in the capital Kabul. "Paiwand is a grassroots effort... to come together and talk about how social media has been used and how it can be used, especially for social good in Afghanistan," said Eileen Guo, the director of Impassion Afghanistan, which organised the event. "We are trying to support a small but growing community of social media users in Afghanistan. " While the internet penetration is only 3.5%, there are some 18 million mobile phone users in the desperately impoverished country of 27 million. Transparency In 2012, Afghanistan introduced 3G mobile internet. "This time, everyone has their own social media campaign. Oh, My: George Takei On Google Glass, SpaceX And His New YouTube Series. George Takei has a cold.
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They mentioned that more democratisation of communication is important for India. It should branch out from the English-speaking urban population to more local levels where they can discuss their issues over social media and voice-based locally generated content can be an option. They were speaking at the South Asia Summit on Social Media for Digital Empowerment organised by the American Centre and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF).
DEF founder-director Osama Manzar pointed out that information leads to economic prosperity and inclusion should take place beyond language and culture. He said the social media often work as a tool to pressurise the government on several socio-politico-economic issues. Social-media. How our activists view social media. Opposition politician Amr Badr from Egypt Modern communication strategy platforms such as twitter and facebook had a great influence on protest movements as they facilitated reaching a larger number of protesters and eased organizing protests in addition to media coverage.
However, it is hard to reach older demographics, the poor and illiterate people who cannot or do not have access to such communication platforms. Greek lawyer Lila Bellou Social media and the internet (blogs etc.) help the dissemination of information and contribute to the pluralism of ideas and opinions, which the traditional mass media (TV, newspapers) can’t offer. 4104.