Communications and Technology for Violence Prevention Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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4 Addressing Disparities and Vulnerabilities
4 Addressing Disparities and Vulnerabilities
Pages 25-31
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Some of the downsides of technology related to violence include cyberbullying, losses of privacy and security, and stories of perpetrators targeting victims through social media sites. In the developing world the adoption of technologies such as the mobile phone creates a new path for combating longstanding, ingrained violence.
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He said that new technology is lowering barriers and "just by its existence it is disrupting things." He spoke about the vast penetration rate for mobile phones, noting that more than 600 million phones are in Africa, a continent with a total population of approximately 1 billion. Speaker John Pollock of Technology Review discussed one example of wide-scale community penetration was the power of social media to impact revolutions.
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By working with constituents on the use of video as a medium for documentation, it has shed light on the repression of ethnic minorities in Burma and has helped to prosecute recruiters of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Violence SMS and geocoding technologies can be used to display incidents of violence in real time, which can be particularly effective in combating sexual violence.
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FamilyFirst is a program in the United States that uses a texting service that allows victims to report incidents silently via a simple SMS message and to make contact with a crisis intervention worker or police without making an actual phone call. The Grameen Phone Foundation's Village Phone model is based on providing a small loan and a "business-in-a-box" to entrepreneurs to provide customers with access to a mobile phone and mobile airtime.
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Other examples include NSTeens from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Web Wise Kids. Child Abuse There has been an increase in health text messaging programs that target medically underserved populations.
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For example, speaker Charlotte Cole of the Sesame Workshop spoke about her work in the Middle East, where she and her colleagues are trying to introduce kids in conflict situations to "the other" to reduce acrimony between groups. Their messages seek to model the interactions between the parent and the child.
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BOX 4-1 Key Messages Raised by Individual Speakers • nformation and communications technologies play a powerful role in spreading I messages, building movements, and reaching vulnerable, isolated populations. • he spread of information and communications technologies can positively T affect those vulnerable and isolated populations most at risk for violence, but it could be useful to further explore how best to maximize the advantages of such technology while minimizing the disadvantages.
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