Digital Capacity Building Course Thursday 24th October 2013. Manchester Town Hall Today, I was invited to an event about Digital Capacity Building organised by Tackling Hate Crime. The chairperson Vanessa Scarborough (DCLG Deputy Director, Head of tackling Hate Crime) spoke about the importance of empowering and strengthening community based organisation to have a positive contribution as well as tackling hate crime by having a presence in the digital world and social media such as facebook, twitter, youtube and the internet in general. The course was designed to give skills for those people to make it a reality. Then, Iftikhan Awan (independent member of anti Muslim Hate Crime Cross government departments Working group) emphasised the importance of social media and how the whole community and in particular Muslim community can contribute to have a voice in the social media in order to counter the negative publicity as well as the increase in Anti Muslim Hate Crime on individual and organisations such as Mosques. Then, Atif (film maker) showed the audience how to use simple techniques and equipments (Mobile, Ipod...) to make films and documentaries using for example Windows Movie Maker which are suitable to put on Facebook, youtube and other social media to spread the news regarding community events as well as exposing any hate crime committed against community members or organsiations. These publicities will be playing a big role in balancing negative main stream media. Robert (Breaktrough media) spoke about how you can boost your facebook pages and news as well as spreading the news to as many as possible of facebook and youtube users. Then, Tony Mcmahon showed the participants how to reach your target audience and maximise your impact using social media channels such as Twitter, facebook and youtube. Finally, Paul Giannasi (Ministry of Justice - Hate Crime Programme) gave an introduction about internet governance including legislative and jurisdictional challenges. He also showed the participants examples how to overcome these legal obstacles and produce positive counter-narrative. Examples were shown of how the hate crime programme have used social media to reach target audiences with their messages. For information about Hate crime and how to report it, pls. go to the following websites: Police: report-it.org.uk Website:tellmamauk.org Facebook: facebook/tellmamauk Twitter: @tellmamauk Tel:0800 456 1226 SMS: 01157070007 In conclusion, the event was very interesting and future events will be organised as well as news updates will be posted to participants.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:28:36 +0000
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