1. Wearable cameras for people at risk
With increasingly small and innocuous cameras rising on poles on top of buildings everywhere to protect industries, banks and government buildings, ordinary individuals are starting to wear cameras for their own safety. These devices act as a sort of “video microphone”, recording, at the click of a button, the events occurring during a certain length of time. The implications for personal safety are similar to the safety provided to businesses and institutions that have used cameras for protection for decades.

2. Creative Virals
The internet’s huge reach allows anyone to easily access millions of people with their comments or message. Short clips of video spread through the World Wide Web like wildfire. In this way, a message that is sufficiently creative and effective can reach an audience of millions. Moreover, there is no censorship or corporate control on internet content, so the message of viral can be subversive instead of profitable.

3. Submit alternative links to social news sites
Alternative social news websites, since they do not have the means to be distributed by the regular channels available to large media corporations, need active distribution by readers and supporters. The internet, especially peer to peer sharing traffic, provides the ideal, inexpensive medium to circulate alternative news sites.

4. Encourage use of the Internet
The Internet allows very small businesses in impoverished parts of the world to access a global market place with their own locally made products. This allows poor and disadvantages to compete on an equal footing in a global marketplace.

5. Networking
Communication technology and the Internet have given grassroots groups and social advocacy groups unparalleled ability to network and communicate. Previously, individuals and groups in different countries and in different parts of the same country had no way of communicating, sharing information and coordinating action.

6. Teach Something in 5 Minutes on Youtube.
Youtube allows the individual to demonstrate and distribute instructions on just about any operation or technique with only a small webcam and an internet connection. Since it is a mainstream website, the instructional video is assured of maximum exposure and large audience of people with similar interests. Because Youtube brings people both video and audio, exhibitions of even the most physical activities are possible.

7. Email your Senator or Congressman.
The internet is a great equalizer in that it allows messages to be sent without even the cost of postage. Never before have our leaders, our senators and congressmen, been so closely available. E-mail is increasingly taking over the communication formerly carried by postal workers and is therefore being received by institutions with the same regard as paper mail. If more people sent regular messages to their leaders, the public voice would be louder, if not more clear.

8. Fundraising
Technology and the Internet allows Social Justice groups to publicize their cause and fundraise worldwide. Online fundraising is so successful, it is widely considered a ‘boom’ industry with consultants, software, web portals and more to assist groups raise money online. Online fundraising also frees Social Justice groups from restrictions which may come from accepting funding from Government.

9. Leak Corruption to wikileaks
Wikileaks is a whistle blower website. It encourages those individuals in possession of sensitive government or corporate materials to publish these documents anonymously. The site works to protect contributors’ identities while at the same time outing corrupt government or corporate practices and policies. The site was kept as a secret until January of 2007. The credibility of the posted documents is openly debated on the website itself, so there is a wide margin for false or inaccurate postings. The site does, however, have an advisory board to monitor the quality and veracity of the site’s sensitive and often severely critical content.

10. Build a Strong Democracy and Educated electorate.
Providing information technology to rural areas and impoverished communities increases the general education level, and leads to a better informed population which can then participate in civil society.