Web moves for social change

I have just come across the eCampaigning Forum, an annual event since 2002. They describe it as an ‘eActivism Practitioners Community’ …aiming to share expertise, explore where eCampaigning is going, strengthen the eCampaigning community and increase our capacity to use new media to stimulate change. There is a wiki for various sessions (it was last held in Oxford in January) which may have material of interest – I haven’t explored fully yet.

This was linked from a description of the ‘Web 2.0 for Good’ event happening in London on 22nd May. This is billed as “the first event in the UK to explore how Web-based tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasting and social bookmarking can be used to promote social change and innovation.” It’s a shame that the main organisation seemingly behind this, Policy Unplugged, has a rather poor website itself, with no information on the event!