Tools and
Models
New forums for discussion
and new ways of discussing themes, ideas and issues that
aim to make use of information and communication technologies
are being developed and the links below provide examples
of such e-forms of collective action.
1.The Odyssey
Group Workshop Series, first convened in August 1999.
These workshops not only physically bring a group of
people together to present and discuss research ideas,
but also involve a number of virtual participants all
over the world. Field trips and their accompanying analysis
documents are posted onto the associated web site. Developing
web sites for workshops and conferences allow people to
share ideas virtually and facilitate wider participation
networks than more traditional means.
2. A Trade Union Web Browser
See the world's first
trade union web browser developed by Labour Start.
It has been developed specifically for trade unionists,
designed for compatibility with low tech machines and
filled with trade union specific links.
3. The World Development Report Virtual
Conference.
This virtual
conference was sponsored by the Bretton Woods
Project and the New Policy Institute to allow diverse
comment on the content of the most recent World Bank Report
on Poverty and Development. 1500 people signed up for
the on-line discussion forum.
4. E-Collectivism
Toolkit
This link provides a variety of interesting
material and links regarding activism, organising and
mobilising through e-forms.
5. The
Working Class Movement Library
This provides an example of the archiving
capacity of the internet, providing web space to advertise
a collection of English language books, periodicals, pamphlets,
archives and artefacts, concerned with the activities,
expression and enquiries of the labour movement, its allies
and its enemies, since the late 1700s. It provides space
to catalogue materials available at the library in Salford,
UK, but also an avenue for donations of new material to
add to the archive.
This site is maintained by Anne-marie
Greene
