Navigating AI’s Role in Politics, Campaigns, and Advocacy: The TON Reading List
Tectonica has compiled a comprehensive reading list on AI’s impact on politics, campaigning, and advocacy.
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Digital Campaigning
Digital campaigning leverages technology to create change, whether through emails and petitions or platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. The resources here will help you finesse your mobilising strategy, broaden your engagement across platforms, and think critically about how to measure your success.
Set Up Letter Campaigns for Contacting Australian MPs on Action Network
Step by step instructions and files for setting up letter campaigns for contacting Australian Members of Parliament MPs using Action Network.
Digital Campaigning in Europe: A Series of Articles
This series of articles from the European Center for Digital Action explores the evolving use of digital tools and strategies in political and social campaigns across Europe, covering case studies, technological impacts, democratic implications, and ethical considerations.
Digital Organizing Frameworks and Models
Explore a collection of digital organizing frameworks and models by Tectonica, a movement building agency.
Movements, Organising and Transformational Politics in the Digital Age
Explore a collection of resources on movements, organising and transformational politics in the digital age by Tectonica.
Tech, including Artificial Intelligence, and its Relationship to Movement Politics
Explore a collection of resources from Tectonica about technology and artificial intelligence and their relationship to movement politics.
The State of Digital Organising in Europe 2020
Research from surveys & interviews (over 1000 organisations) on the state of digital organising and online campaigns/activism across Europe.
AI Technologies, Campaigning and Social Change (Commons Conversations Podcasts)
Commons Conversations Podcast about the role AI can play in supporting campaigners with messaging, outreach & other opportunities.
Activist Digital Security Practices
This Knowledge Roundup about digital security practices for activists is from the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN).
Digital Tools Assessment Template
Handy template to assess the digital tools currently in your organization or campaign toolbox and how those tools can be leveraged to build or deepen capacities.
Introduction to Digital Organizing
A primer designed by re:power to help you understand how to best use digital organizing strategies and tactics to strengthen your electoral and advocacy organizing work.
How to Create a Successful Digital Campaign: Digital Activism Toolkit
How to Create a Successful Digital Campaign: Digital Activism Toolkit is a practical guide by Youth and Environment Europe.
Digital Campaigning and Online Organising Courses with Social Movement Technologies
A list of courses for activists and campaigners about digital campaigning and online organising from Social Movement Technologies.
Digital Organising Tools to Reach and Recruit Supporters
Does your group want to reach out to supporters and engage them in campaigns? A quick overview of the options and top tips for success.
Measuring People Power in the Digital Age
Tips from Social Movement Technology’s course Top Tools & Tactics to Bump Up Your Online Organizing Game on how to measure your impact.
TikTok for Organizing: How Groups are Using TikTok in Campaigns
Learn from Social Movement Technologies how not for profit groups are using TikTok in their campaigns to create change.
Online Tactics: Digital Storms
A Digital Storm is an online event mobilising the public to email, call, text and post comments to a corporate or government target.
Commons Conversations Podcast: Insights into Activism
Commons Conversations Podcast – Interviews with campaigners about insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more.
Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs
Democracy Labs applies innovative tech to social justice and voting rights causes. Here is a list of tech ideas for campaigners & organizers.
Digital First Aid Kit
Guide to help activists better protect themselves and the communities they support against the most common types of digital emergencies.