Technology for Tibet Trumps Tyranny!
CTV did a great story on the technology strategy behind Lhadon’s blogging and the Great Wall protest, that also connects back to the Everest protest from a few months ago. Clever use of the Internet, blogs, online video, and other technology is what gives organizations like ours an edge against massive nations, global corporations, and world opinion in general.
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The Globe and Mail has an excellent article on this as well: Tech-savvy pro-Tibet protesters get message across:
The group of pro-Tibet activists in China that caught the world’s attention this week by chronicling a series of stunts over the web used an “age-old tactic” with a savvy, modern twist, says an expert in the field.
By using the internet to circumvent Chinese censors, the Students for a Free Tibet — including three Canadians — sent live cellphone videos of them rappelling down the Great Wall of China and unfurling a banner that read “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008” back to New York using the internet software Skype.
The video was almost instantly posted onto YouTube, and just like that, they had an immediate and global audience for their cause.
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[...] SFT effectively used new communication technology to spread around the world dramatic photos and video from our protests on Mount Everest and the Great Wall. Our messages and images were picked up by global media, and we also know they made their way into Tibet and China (Tibetans inside Tibet have communicated to us how inspired they were). [...]