tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48144211630367278642024-03-12T00:39:58.101-07:00Digital Government and Social Media in the Public SectorThis is a course blog for the classes on digital government and social media in the public sector" class taught by Professor Ines Mergel at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. The blog posts include comments and ideas from MPA, MAIR and EMPA students studying the use of new technologies in the public sector.Ines Mergelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227897250006864306noreply@blogger.comBlogger678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-20096073221085543082016-12-26T01:33:00.002-08:002018-11-27T03:06:49.689-08:00Implementation of GST in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has approved the draft Central GST and State GST laws. The council has an agreement on compensation also in respect of proceeds on cess on sin goods and on other sources. However, due to demonetization, market growth rate has slowed down leading to less revenues of state governments. States may expect additional compensation to bridge the revenue gaps due to demonetization. However, the major issue in GST council is of dual control. This issue has not yet resolved. If the demand of states for dual control is allowed, it will be against the spirit of</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the GST i.e. one law for one nation. The barrier is the provisions of Integrated GST. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Integrated GST (IGST) is meant for inter-state supplies. On inter state sales, the Centre would levy IGST and will share the tax collected with the states. Once it is agreed that the Centre has the responsibility to tax inter-state supplies, the maintainance of check-posts at state borders is not necessary. The government is considering to convert check post digital through electronic receipts to facilitate movement of goods from one state to another. In my opinion, if check posts are meant for checking the movement of goods from one state to another and ensuring proper revenue collection, the inbuilt provisions of IGST would be more appropriate than the physical control at check posts. Government may consider smart passes at tolls of GPS system to track the movement of goods vehicles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A lot of time and efforts have been taken to implement the GST at the earliest with target financial year 2017-18. However, due to prolonged discussion in GST Council on remaining differences over IGST and dual control, even if the matter is resolved, passing/amending the laws by Parliament and state assemblies within March 2016 will be a herculean task. Thereafter, a lot of rules, procedures, forms etc. need to be developed for compliance of laws. Therafter only, companies will be able to issue an invoice and upload it to the GST Network in compliance with all the rules. The success of GST depends on the its simplicity in the matter of compliance which ensures the taxpayers that they do not face undue harassment and they of ease of access.</span></div>
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P K Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795955815028536622noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-46686108419148158422016-03-03T02:51:00.000-08:002016-03-03T02:51:00.714-08:00A Progressive Budget of Government of India: Budget-2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Indian
Federal Budget 2016-17 is clearly focused on giving thrust to the rural
economy. The Federal Government has been maintaining fiscal prudence by way of
reducing budgeted fiscal deficit from 3.9% (2015-16) to 3.5% (2016-17).
Recapitalization of public sector banks
to the tune of INR 25000 crore equivalent to USD 3.73 billion will strengthen
public sector banks. The measures taken for 100 Foreign Direct Investments
(FDI) in Assets Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) through automatic route will
improve the efficiency of banking sector. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is taking
a lot of steps for reforming banking sector so that fund flow and credit cycles
improve. (for details visit rbi.org)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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backbone of Indian economy is still Rural India dependent on agriculture and
small industries. The major share of budget allocation in this sector, which is
a welcome step to strengthen Indian economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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domestic financial market has received a boost from the much-awaited Federal
Budget. The short term outlook has turned positive for the rupee. Significant
short-term supports are 68 and 68.25. The threat of falling rupee has now
eased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">The Federal Budget 2016 has made
a series of policy initiatives and schemes that aim at encouraging startups and
existing Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (“MSME”). They key objective
of such schemes were to eliminate the common challenges startups come across,
and ensure that MSMEs in the country get a fillip.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some of the key proposals/schemes are
highlighted below: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the 3 of first 5 years of Profits Any start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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New manufacturing companies incorporated on or after March 1, 2016 have been
provided an option to adopt a reduced corporate tax of 25% plus surcharge and
cess. In absolute terms, 27.55% (where the income exceeds Rs 1 crore but does
not exceed Rs 10 crore) or 28.84% (where income exceeds Rs 10 crore) provided
such companies do not claim profit-linked or investment-linked deduction or do
not avail of investment allowance and accelerated depreciation. This change is
envisioned to provide the much needed boost to the manufacturing sector and the
'Make in India' campaign of the government, considering the capital-incentive
nature of the manufacturing industries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thus
Indian Government is focusing on manifold growth like agriculture, industrial
(Make in India and Start Ups), financial and money market. Now Indian economy
is fastest growing economy in the world with more than 7% growth rate in GDP.
In coming years, it may grow at much faster pace if these initiatives are
successfully implemented. I say it is a progressive budget for all sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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P K Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795955815028536622noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-72484056513531359492016-03-02T00:50:00.001-08:002016-03-02T03:30:22.092-08:00Highlights of Indian Rail Budget 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our Social Media Team presented a social media plan for Indian Railway in Social Media Class in Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA in December 2015. Mostly, our recommendations have been incorporated in the Indian Rail Budget 2016. Highlights are as under:</strong></div>
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P K Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795955815028536622noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-22306406338819919422015-12-18T12:25:00.003-08:002015-12-18T12:36:02.494-08:00Our class blog makes it onto the list of top 50 Most-Read Federal IT Blogs 2015Congratulations everyone! Our blog updates are listed among the top <a href="http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2015/12/50-must-read-federal-it-blogs-2015?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">50 Most-Read Federal IT Blogs 2015</a>!<br />
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<br />Ines Mergelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227897250006864306noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-69379585626204968202015-12-09T17:00:00.001-08:002015-12-09T17:00:09.056-08:00Live Tracking of Social Media: The Case of G20 Antalya SummitDuring G20 2015 Summit hosted by Turkey in Antalya on 15-16 November 2015 a live social media track of the Summit had been run through <a href="http://g20live.com/">http://g20live.com/</a> website. As social media turned the news feed into a real-time phenomenon, keeping track of it and making a live showcase would have been too. Antalya case may be seen as a pilot. <div>
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Here is the Social Media Factsheets of #G20 World Leaders under 33 selected indicators. <br /><br /><a href="http://g20live.com/infographic.php">http://g20live.com/infographic.php</a> <br /><br />The website is still running for those who want to follow and compare social media performances of G20 leaders. </div>
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Hakan Yerlikayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188088787589953542noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-32178574385768555522015-12-09T14:50:00.001-08:002015-12-09T14:51:56.075-08:00Spiral of Silence… What?A predominant connotation arising when we talk about social media is free speech. A Pew Research Center study evolving out of pre-internet era human behavior insight called spiral of silence shows that it is not always the case.<br />
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Conducted right after Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations of widespread government surveillance by the Government of United States of America, the study claims “previous spiral of silence findings as to people’s willingness to speak up in various settings also apply to social media users.”<br />
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Hakan Yerlikayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188088787589953542noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-71430066988565793142015-12-09T13:10:00.001-08:002015-12-09T13:14:24.417-08:00PBWorks: Making it as easy as…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay! Here comes a confession. When our professor asked us to develop a wiki for our class presentation about wikis we were a little bit shocked. Our inner voice was like “What! Are we supposed to develop a wiki and we have only one week for that?!!”. However, it did not took too much time to get rid of our fear. When we looked at PBWorks, that our professor suggested, we saw the possibility of developing a wiki within minutes and like a hot knife through butter.<br />
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Actually their original name was PeanutButterWiki arising from the idea that they wanted making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich. They surely did it. They deserved the name and no longer need it!<br />
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They have a number of products customized for different customer profiles like agencies, new businesses, educational purposes, etc. and it seems so far it has already been used and tested by customers differing in nature.<br />
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If anyone is interested or in need of a collaborative content management tool, I suggest PBWorks. It is available through <a href="http://www.pbworks.com/">www.pbworks.com</a> webpage. They are serving on a freemium base, meaning you can use a number of their services for free and if you would like to enjoy further functionalities or existing functionalities with more capacity you have to pay for it.<br />
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PBWorks software is available only in English for now. This suggestion goes for them: Do not deprive the rest of the World from enjoying an easy collaborative content creation.<br />
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We are all knowledge workers. Why not work with fun and enjoyment!..</div>
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Hakan Yerlikayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188088787589953542noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-81599818464609545692015-12-09T11:03:00.001-08:002015-12-14T15:29:24.418-08:00Social Media Discipline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We all wish to maximize our careers, our
profession, and aspire to be like those who we find most successful. The social
media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, and even
LinkedIn has been used by many smartphone users to portray or present
themselves as ideal one though the reality may be different. In social media
perception is everything. The perception of ideal-self is quite different from
the real-self. Real-self is the attribute, characteristics and personality of a
person whereas ideal-self is the perception a person want to be. Perception has
no limit. However it is highly influenced from culture, society, environment
and the inspiration. Someone may say that perception is an imaginary thing.
Agreed, but this greed sometimes makes a person most successful. Sometimes, it
causes depression also. This depends on the way of thinking as to how positive
he is. A lot of persons full of negativity cannot think positively and that may
cause self-destruction. However, the only mantra making perception real is the
positive attitude and greed to take efforts for getting something. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">While presenting ourselves on the social
media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, and even
LinkedIn, sometimes we do not present real attributes or personality. I know a
few persons who have never gone to poor village communities or never fed any
poor or never helped any needy person, but by way of doctors photographs posted
on the Facebook have got thousands of likes and comments. I have also found
recently a post of one politician with doctored photographs of helping Chennai
people during flood though it was not a reality. What they really achieve? We
create ideal or artificial personality/attribute on the social media for
attracting likes, comments, posts fans etc. It may be beneficial for dream
world like Hollywood and Bollywood, but in real life it is not beneficial. This
gives false sense of boosting self and an inflated sense of who they really
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">1. You should not compare yourself with
others. God has created everybody with unique feature which is not comparable
with others. You should understand your quality and capability and this only
should be portrayed on the social media platform. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">2. You should give all true and authentic information on
the social media. If you feel that the information should not be given, you
just skip it, but do not give false information.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">3. You should be consistent and transparent. Do not just
like or retweet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to appease someone. If
you do not agree to any post, you express your disagreement with reason in your
comment against the post. </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">4. Do not blindly believe on all posts on social media.
Examine its authenticity and source of information.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">5. Be positive in your life. Social media tool is capable
of connecting you to influential people, who may be helpful in future.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">6. Connect to your friends through social media and use
the social media to share your thoughts or to obtain thoughts of your friends.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">7. Utilize social media for positive discussion but not
to spread false rumors about society.</span><br />
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P K Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795955815028536622noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-91297805725514745222015-12-09T11:01:00.001-08:002015-12-09T11:01:20.585-08:00Turkey Highlights Social Media in Recent Information Society StrategyTurkey has adopted its Information Society Strategy and Action Plan for the period of 2015-2018 by the first quarter of this year. It covers eight priority areas pertaining to information society policies including e-government. Not surprisingly, mobile service delivery and usage of social media in public services has been addressed and an action to this effect is declared to the public. <br /><br />According to Strategy, in order to utilize mobile technologies and social media opportunities effectively a social media guide for public agencies will be prepared, prioritized services will be moved to mobile platform with a schedule and mobile services and social media usage will steadily be developed taking users’ requests into consideration.<br /><br />In reality a considerable number of public agencies are already using social media in order to reach citizens with their own efforts and without any further guidance and support from central organizations unlike the example of USA.<br /><br />Although wording of the Strategy is encouraging most people both in Turkey and outside remember Turkish government’s attitude towards social media platforms rather as hostile due to a number of shutdown including YouTube and Twitter. This raises a question, actually a difficult one that if Turkish government really wants to exploit the benefits of social media tools or not in order to communicate with its people and to improve public services.<br /><br />Considering the Strategy document has been put into implementation with the decision of one of the top decision taking mechanisms in Turkey, namely High Planning Council headed by Prime Minister himself it seems they really do want.<br /><br />Let’s wait and see! Or not wait but work and see!Hakan Yerlikayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188088787589953542noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-42556541337429517372015-12-09T08:22:00.002-08:002015-12-09T08:22:41.303-08:00Importance of smile in life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is essential to know what is
important in life, material pleasure or happiness. Life was simple, fun loving,
stress free and full of pleasure when modern world of material worthiness was
absent from our life. The advent of newer technology, modern devices like
computer, internet, and smart phones were supposed to make the life simple which
it did but we used it in such a way making our life complicated and stressed.
We forget something called judicious use of devices and optimise it as per
need. As a result smile eluded from our face bringing misery to our health and
thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Smile and laughter are among the many
things researcher have found to be stress busters. It cleans the soul and makes
you healthy and your soul pious. Do you ever see any poster in paediatrics department
of any medical colleges or hospitals of a child crying or thinking? Definitely not,
you will always find posters of child smiling and laughing. That is even All Mighty
wants you to smile and laugh although he brings you to this world crying. That is
the essence of life. You wake up in the morning and share happiness, smile and
laughter with your family members and see how the day progresses. It passes off
wonderfully and most satisfying. It provides you the great sense of belongings
to this world. It is said laughter opens the path to connect you from God. Your
soul belongs to all mighty and He wants you to be always smiling. Smile and
laughter has chain reaction and a smile on your face can bring smile on other
persons face too. That’s the power it has. Can all of us follow these simple
wishes of all mighty and keep smiling always to bring happiness to us and all
other persons close to us. I am sure all of us want to lead a healthy and
memorable life full of smile and laughter so spread the message of smile wherever
you can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Happy
Smiling.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165466608412970863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-14060961943457146422015-12-08T21:01:00.002-08:002015-12-08T21:01:18.699-08:00Social Media and the Government Programs in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Prime Minister of
India, Shri Narendra Modi has hailed social media as a force for democracy and
good governance, which is echoed in all the central government policies for the
past one and a half years. The government has been using the power of social
media as a tool of empowerment and transparency.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
take its flagship schemes like Swachh Bharat, Jan Dhan Yojna, Give it Up and
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao to the last mile, the government has started an extensive
outreach program through inter-personal communication and social media. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Beyond
the bureaucratic red tape, the Prime Minister chose to kick-off the drive for
Swachh Bharat (Clean India) with a social media campaign in which he issued
challenges to a veritable list of who’s who, urging them to join the campaign.
Many of the PM’s followers on Twitter had eagerly taken the task with post
after post declaring support for the campaign with hashtags like #MyCleanIndia
and #MyIdeaofSwachhBharat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For
the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao <span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;">(Save the
Daughter, Educate the Daughter) campaign</span>, the PM l<span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;">aunched a new social media stunt. During his
monthly radio address, he asked moms and dads throughout the nation to
tweet photos of themselves and their daughters.<span class="apple-converted-space"> This </span></span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">#SelfieWithDaughter
campaign was a smash hit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; text-transform: uppercase;">. S</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">elfies
of parents with their daughters have flooded Twitter from all around the world.
<span style="background: white;">(New York Times, June 29, 2015 –
nytlive.nytimes.com)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The government
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">also
leveraged social media to popularize the campaign of “<span style="background: white;">Make in India” that encourages businesses to manufacture in India; </span>Jan
Dhan Yojana campaign, a financial inclusion program and “Give it Up” campaign
that encourages volunteer giving up of subsidy on LPG campaign. All these
social media campaigns have been very popular.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With many new
initiatives taken by the Modi government, extensive use of social media for
promotion of citizen centric schemes and program is a welcome initiative.<span style="background: #FCFCFC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFCFC; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Source:
various articles on internet)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Corruption in public service always has
been a sore in delivery system of services to citizen more so in developing
countries. India is no exception and there has always been thought that the
services are not reaching to the desired citizens for whom it has been designed
and gets siphoned in between. The use of modern internet banking with online
transfer system coupled with Aadhar (a unique identification number based on
biometric parameters launched by Government of India) has done wonders in
disbursing the benefit to the last citizen of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Aadhar was started by Government of
India in year 2010 to provide unique identification number to all citizen based
on finger print of all ten fingers and retina imprint. The total population is
likely to be covered by 2016 with few states almost completing the target.
Citizens have been empowered to link this unique no. to their bank accounts
very similar to social security no. in USA. Once the bank account has been
mapped with the Aadhar number, the benefits can be transferred directly to
one’s account. Government of India is transferring LPG subsidy (cooking gas
subsidy) worth billions of rupees every month to the beneficiary account
directly reaching to the person concerned. It has resulted in huge savings to
the treasury and benefitted the concerned. Few states like Jharkhand and Andhra
Pradesh has started using the Aadhar number for transferring lot of other
benefits like pensions, mid day meal, public distribution subsidy directly into
the beneficiary account. The use of this simple and one aspect of Aadhar number
has been a great success to be replicated in other areas. It is time to use
more innovative technology and follow the two leading states across the country
to achieve corruption free country.</span></div>
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taken to minimise it. There are reports of temperature of the globe rising by
1.5 <sup>0 </sup>c and supposed to rise by 2 <sup>0 </sup>c in next 30 years by
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Paris attack recently has been one of
the cruellest attacks by fundamentalist group. As it is clear from the news now
that the attack has been planned by one of the fundamentalist group, ISIS, it
has an objective to spread hatred and terror. No religion in the world spreads
hatred and enmity rather all religion believes in peace and harmony. The attack
carried by group has been misled by fundamentalist to disturb the peace of the
world. </span></div>
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electronic in this matter of crisis has been exemplary. The whole attack was
covered in an extraordinary manner which has not been seen in recent times
across the globe. There was no reporting of any bloodshed or counter attack by
police and defence or any kind of killing in the print media or electronic
media. This restraint was self imposed and is worth praising. The bloodshed and
counter attack only brings hatred among people and talking point for the people
forgetting the actual tragedy and condemning it. This restraint by media and
the government of France has brought the whole world together and shown how
these things can be controlled in an effective way. Humankind and human losses,
the care and blessing it needs are much more important than these unnecessary
bloodshed reporting and hatred. It also helps in nullifying the objective these
terrorist might be having of spreading terror and hatred. May all media and
government in other countries learn a lesson from France and follow it.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165466608412970863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-83768441647295020822015-12-08T18:50:00.003-08:002015-12-08T18:51:29.468-08:00Chennai floods in India brought the people together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Chennai is the one of the ancient city of India situated at the coast of
Bay of Bengal. It has beautiful white sand beaches and is the capital of
southern state of India, Tamilnadu. The city received unprecedented rain in the
last few days bringing it to stand still. All communication network including
Rail, Air, Road, Mobile went out of order. All areas were flooded with water
almost touching the first floors of building. People were worried about their relations
being safe as no news were coming out of Chennai. Residents were having a tough
time saving the lifes and reaching a safe place besides food, water and other
essential things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Residents of Chennai in this matter of crisis showed a great restrain
and humanity in managing the crisis by helping each other. People from all
religion came on one platform and helped the people. No matter if the needy are
Muslim, Christian, Hindu all of them came forward and helped in this crisis
situation. Not long back there was a lot of talk of intolerance in media,
social media in India about different communities but all of that was of no
importance in this matter of grave crisis the city was facing. There has been
no reporting of rioting, looting or any kind of anti social activities in these
days. There has only been reporting of people’s participation, helping hand
across communities, providing food and shelter by those who can provide with
whole hearted welcoming the strangers as if they know them since long. The
resident of Chennai has shown what true India means. India is a country where
all religion lives in peace, people are tolerant about each other religion and
belief and always consider them as one family. Hats off to the city of Chennai
for showing the country its true culture which was being doubted by some ill
motivated citizens not long back.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03165466608412970863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-82509840250801851102015-12-08T11:06:00.001-08:002015-12-08T11:06:54.573-08:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
Political Power of the Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The
emergence of social media has brought about many changes in our lives. It has
recently been used as a means of promoting more effectively in politics. Barack
Obama could win the 2008 US presidential election, by introducing a web
strategy that combines offline and SNS as widely known in the world. He went
closer to the voters to take advantage of the popular social media such as Facebook
and Twitter from the early campaign. At that time, social media has been used
as a tool for sharing information and gathering political opinions and social
networking is currently being continued in the White House website. US presidential
election showed social media can awaken the democratic potential in elections
and the fact that low levels of online activity was linked to political
participation offline was verified. Similarly, it was also confirmed that
social media can be a effective tool of political participation to make a young
generation participate in the politics. After that time, various social media
tools have been widely used as a means of promotion in Korean election. Most Koreans
use social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Blog. Particularly, Twitter is
used as the most effective political tool in Korea. Actually, Choi, Moon-sun,
the candidate for the governor of Gangwon-do was the biggest beneficiary of
social media in last local election. Some people are afraid that policies are
likely to be altered by populism and incorrect public opinion may be formed according
to the will of politicians. However, the social media developed Korean politics
and enabled the Public to have a strong political power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290067397808617064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-30357140867704688892015-12-08T09:34:00.001-08:002015-12-08T09:34:24.508-08:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
Expected Influence of the Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The
world has changed from the year 2004. Before that time, traditional media such
as TV and radio had powerful influence on the people and enabled the way people
think and behave to change. However, paradigm has changed after then. Various
social media such as Facebook, Instragram and Twitter has replaced them. News
is also true. How traditional media can be the response in situations where social
news is pouring out faster and more accurately? Web sites and even blogs make
way for social news. That is, cooperation and collaboration on such information
such as Tagging, RSS subscriptions will gradually become a natural trend and
information is going to be </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">customized</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> People
have also changed. Job seekers up to the age of 38 in the United States is said
to have a job in an average of 10 to 18. The idea for the work now so changed
from the existing. Experience is focused, the contract is introduced and
independence is strengthened. A organizational structure will be more
horizontal and the way they work also will change. The role to share your
thoughts with each other and finds the idea of collecting them will be
emphasized. As center will be disappeared, peripheral role will be strengthening
and as a result, each other is one of the points. CEOs of companies are likely to
be interested in the media having a broad audience and accustomed only to corresponding
to it. However, Internet does not distinguish between mainstream and fringe
activities. Rather both is often connected together via the Internet.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290067397808617064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-66228557583261623572015-12-08T08:23:00.003-08:002015-12-08T08:29:44.950-08:00SNS, and Elections in South Korea<br />
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“Data analytics through SNS is a global trend. Data
never lie.” Mr. Park, professor of Young-Nam University, said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nowadays, election strategy using SNS is a big
issue for Parliamentary elections next year in South Korea. Political experts
predict that this election will be the SNS war. Many politicians started to use
SNS and someone employed SNS experts. More recently, many institutions for SNS election
strategy have been established. They provides candidates with what issues voters
have an interest in are, which agenda is more favorable, and how candidates can
appeal more to voters, throughout analyzing SNS data.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%;">
As a matter of fact, until last election in 2012,
SNS relatively had not been a famous tool for Korean politicians because most
voters were not familiar with SNS at that time and also didn’t believe contents
of SNS. Sometimes, SNS was abused as a channel to spread malicious rumors. Moreover,
young people using SNS have less interest in politics and have a tendency not
to vote. Therefore, it is true that most politicians in last election focused
more on traditional media, like TV and newspapers, and a massive rally for their
electioneering.</div>
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However, the trend is changing. Over 80% of Korean are
using smartphone and proportion of SNS users among voters has increased. The influence
of SNS is also getting bigger and bigger. Many SNS users have started to
express themselves about serious political issues through SNS and their expressions
have started to be public opinion. In reality, the best example can be seen in the
mayor of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. He makes the best use of SNS in
order to communicate with citizens and share his policies. As long as I know,
he would be the first mayor using SNS actively. <o:p></o:p></div>
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SNS in Korean politics is new stage and challenge. I
am going to note what tactics will be used in Korean election next year.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983677489499092085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-70766553159012228522015-12-07T20:08:00.003-08:002015-12-07T20:08:33.429-08:00Social Media use doubles in Rural India <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Usage of social media
in Rural India has grown by an impressive 100 percent during the year 2014-15. The
number of people in Rural India using the internet to access Twitter and
Facebook</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> stood at 25 million, up from close
to 12 million last year</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. On the other hand,
Urban India registered a relatively lower growth of 35 percent with the total
number of users at 118 million as on April 2015. According to the ‘Social Media
in India 2014’ report, jointly released by the Internet and Mobile Association
of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, there are 143 million social media
users in India as on April 2015. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Over half the users are really active on social media sites</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. The report also finds that the top four Metros namely New
Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai, continue to account for almost half of the
social media users in Urban India.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to the report, the largest segment accessing social media consists of the
College Going Students (34%), followed by Young Men (27%). School going
children constitute 12% of the social media users. College Going Students and
Young Men collectively form the 60% of the social media users in Urban India. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook emerged the leading social
media website with 96% of urban users accessing it, followed by Google Plus (61%),
Twitter (43%) and LinkedIn (24%). </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to the report, maintaining a profile on social networking sites is the top
activity of users, followed by updating status. Commenting on a blog site
is the third most popular activity among users in social networking sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accessing social media is one of the key reasons for people
to access the Internet. In fact, for many people accessing the Internet for the
first time, social media was the reason they embraced Internet. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The report further finds that 61% of these users access
social media on their mobile device. Given the mobile tele-density of India at 76.02%
and with the expected increase in mobile traffic, the number of users accessing
social media on mobile is only bound to increase. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(Source:
IMAI-IMRB report New Delhi, June 17, 2015 and The Hindu article dated June 20,
2015) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A</span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">fter</span></span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> the deadly
terrorist attacks in California, USA last week and possible involvement of a married couple whose family roots were traced back to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, it is high time for Pakistan
Government to realize and take concrete steps to take practical steps to put an end to extremism and
terrorism in the country. Last year after the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">devastating attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">on
December 16, 2014, where the <i>Taliban</i>
killed more than 130 children, military and political leaders formed a <b>National Action Plan </b>to counter
terrorism. One point in the <b>20-point
plan</b> called for the formation of a committee to counter online terrorism,
in a country estimated to have nearly 30 million Internet users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Obviously, much of the
effort should be focused on ground clean-up operations; however cyber space
would also be part of the larger counter- terror landscape in this regard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory
Authority (PEMRA) have been taking action against pages on social media and
online videos posted by terrorist groups. There are approximately 60 banned
organizations in Pakistan, according to the National Internal Security Policy
(NISP) document. Recently the federal government has been reluctant to confirm
a reported ban on Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), but news reports say that the ban is
part of the National Action Plan<b>.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
Twitter account of JUD<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>chief
Hafiz Saeed was suspended two months ago but the organization’s website can
still be accessed and Twitter accounts with his name still exist. US
Government has declared JuD as a terrorist organization still #JuD and
#HafizSaeed have not been banned by US Government or Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: x-large;"><i>Nation States and Social media companies should cooperate on war footing to eliminate content traces of terrorism and hate speech on the web</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to security analyst Ahmed Rashid, “Social media is a very big part of
recruitment in the West. In Pakistan it helps produce a point of view amongst
those on Twitter and other such sites but doesn’t have the power to recruit.”
Rashid says that access to social media is limited in Pakistan, as opposed to more
developed societies in Europe where there are huge online followings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Globally, the
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is strengthening its grip by
recruiting online. “Look at our online numbers, this isn’t our main problem,”
says Farieha Aziz, Director at Bolo Bhi, a Karachi based nonprofit geared
towards digital security privacy. “Blocking sites will not solve any
problem as terrorists just recreate new accounts. This is just a face saving
measure for the government.” Aziz emphasizes the need for a multi-dimensional
approach to deal with social media. “The mechanism requires a lot of thought
and we are not even talking about it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aziz believes
that the Pakistani government should be focused on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">disseminating a cogent counter
narrative</span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.
It needs to come up with its own websites that explain a peaceful version of
religion to provide a “soft” alternative to extremist views.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">recent news report</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Guardian</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>says that the U.K. “is creating a
special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and the
use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information
age.” The Israeli and U.S. militaries already have similar teams.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Guardian</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>continues: “Against a background of
24-hour news, smartphones, and social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, the
new British brigade will attempt to control the narrative. Soldiers with
journalism skills and familiarity with social media are among those being
sought.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Psychological-ops
or unconventional warfare is fairly common now. But the danger of that is that
it can be propagandist when it’s run by state institutions,” says Aziz. “For
example, Israeli IDF has a Twitter account and uses it to valorize its soldiers
or promote a particular view on the Gaza conflict. Then locally, DG ISPR also
has a Twitter account.” Aziz adds that while this can be one way of putting
information out there, or countering certain views you have identified, it is
just one perspective. There may be others. “There aren’t just banned outfits
but also people who may not be militants but they are either sympathetic
towards them or subscribe to and promote their views. And this does need to be
tackled and it can’t just be done by blocking. You block one page or account
and another will be created almost immediately.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aziz says she
feels the country is still figuring out how to respond to online extremism and
needs to “sift through situations and come up with adequate, proportionate and
effective responses.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Pakistani
government has banned some websites but no concerted effort has been made to
block all terrorist sites. The government has blocked access to YouTube and
pornographic sites. It regularly shuts down websites run by the
Tehriki-i-Taliban, which quickly reemerges with new ones. However, experts say
that an online government policy will be severely crippled without
corresponding or supporting action in the offline world. Many mosques deliver
inflammatory preaching and propagate extreme views, clerics breed sectarianism
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>fatwas</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are often issued against minority
Shia. Part of the government’s strategy in countering terrorism is to take
steps that show tangible progress. That means monitoring – if not completely
ending – public sermons that spread hate and eventually find their way on
social media in the form of brazen video messages and clips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Onus on the Social Media Companies <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Facebook, Twitter and YouTube also have a greater
role to play in countering violent extremism in terms of helping Law
Enforcement and regulatory authorities in Islamic countries to ban and regulate
social media technologies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Until recently, Facebook has been asking clients to
report abusive or objectionable accounts amongst its 1.5 billion users. YouTube
has given roughly 200 people and organizations the ability to “flag” up to 20
YouTube videos at once. That includes the U.K. Metropolitan Police’s Counter
Terrorism Internet Referral Unit which has been using its “super flagger”
authority to seek reviews—and removal—of videos it considers extremist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
volume of material on social-media sites is a challenge. Some 400 hours of
video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The online-video site doesn’t
remove videos itself, waiting for users to flag content as objectionable. The
site has had a “promotes terrorism” flag for several years. It hasn’t changed
this approach recently, according a person familiar with the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">More importantly, US President has recently urged tech
companies to take the lead in eliminating the objectionable hate material from
the web. </span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Positive Counter – Terrorism Initiatives on Social
Media<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></b>
<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: x-large;"><i>It is universally acknowledged that benefits of using Social media to the detriment of terrorists are far greater than those favoring them</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Recently, besides
all negative impacts, users on Twitter and Facebook have also come up with lot
of good work in counter terrorism efforts. Plenty of Hashtags like # End –
Terrorism, # Close –Terrorist- Factories, # I-am-not-a terrorist have been
developed by people to support counter- terror thought and drive. Similarly, Facebook is also got plenty of
pages that reflect how people are gathering efforts to curb the menace in the
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><br /></b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>his ying-yang
should continue to defeat the evil and promote the good to make the world a
better and peaceful place.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote>
Syed Asad Razahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13044241588113317824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-29731613399278164692015-12-06T09:46:00.000-08:002015-12-06T09:46:12.306-08:00Aide - Memoire: Social Media Tools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
semester in the “Social Media in Public Sector” class, a large number of social
media tools available for different purposes were discussed. The tools discussed
are for the purposes like social networking, social news, content curation,
social podcasting, content co-production, measuring tools etc. A brief information
about the different social media tools discussed and as obtained from the respective
wiki pages has been summarized below: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Facebook </span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">is a</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">n online </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">social networking
service</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Its name comes from the </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book" title="Face book"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">face book</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> directories
often given to American university students. After registering to use the site,
users can create a </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_profile" title="User profile"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">user profile</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, add other users as </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friending" title="Friending"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">"friends"</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, exchange
messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive
notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join
common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as
"People From Work" or "Close Friends". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Reditt </span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">is an </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">entertainment</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">social networking</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, and </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News" title="News"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">news</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> website where registered community members
can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially
an online </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system" title="Bulletin board system"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bulletin board
system</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to organize the
posts and determine their position on the site's pages. Content entries are
organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The subreddit
topics include news, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, food, and photo sharing,
among many others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Tumblr </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">is a </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging" title="Microblogging"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">microblogging</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> platform and </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">social
networking</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> website. The
service allows users to post </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia" title="Multimedia"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">multimedia</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> and
other content to a short-form </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">blog</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">. Users can follow other
users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's
features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the
option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Storify</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">is a </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" title="Social network service"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">social
network service</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> that lets the user
create stories or timelines using </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">social media</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> such
as </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Instagram</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> etc. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stream. They can also choose whether or not to make their video public or
viewable to only certain users. Scopes can be LBB (Limited by Broadcaster)
which disallows comments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yelp</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" title="United States of America"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">multinational corporation</span></a> headquartered
in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" title="San Francisco, California"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">San Francisco, California</span></a>. It develops,
hosts and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced
reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeatMe" title="SeatMe"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Seat Me</span></a> and
online food-delivery service <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eat24&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Eat24 (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eat24</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Instagram</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">is an online </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_social_network" title="Mobile social network"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">mobile</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing" title="Photo sharing"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">photo-sharing</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_hosting_service" title="Video hosting service"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">video-sharing</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">social
networking</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> service that enables
its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social
networking platforms, such as </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Tumblr</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr" title="Flickr"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Flickr</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> etc.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that develops free and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">open-source software</span></a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL" title="LGPL"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">LGPL</span></a>) for information
collection, visualisation, and interactive mapping. The organisation uses the
concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">crowdsourcing</span></a> for social activism and
public accountability, serving as an initial model for what has been coined as
"activist mapping"—the combination of social activism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism" title="Citizen journalism"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">citizen journalism</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial" title="Geospatial"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">geospatial</span></a> information.
Ushahidi offers products that enable local observers to submit reports using
their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal
and geospatial archive of events. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rank its users according to online social influence via the "Klout
Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. In determining the
user score, Klout measures the size of a user's social media network and
correlates the content created to measure how other users interact with that
content. Klout uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing" title="Bing"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bing</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Facebook</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare" title="Foursquare"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Foursquare</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Google+</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Instagram</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">LinkedIn</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Twitter</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">YouTube</span></a>,
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wikipedia</span></a> data
to create Klout user profiles that are assigned a unique "Klout
Score". Klout scores range from 1 to 100, with higher scores
corresponding to a higher ranking of the breadth and strength of one's online
social influence. While all Twitter users are assigned a score, users who
register at Klout can link multiple social networks, of which network data is
then aggregated to influence the user's Klout Score.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Chennai
is the one of beautiful city and state headquarters of Tamilnadu state in southern
part of India. It has 400-500 feet wide marina drive for 15 kilometers, beautiful
temples and a fort with British rule history. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The many parts of the state is now suffering from floods due to heavy torrential rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People
of Chennai city are the worst sufferer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
The city has witnessed the heaviest rainfall seen in a century. </span>Climate experts are describing this disaster due to El Nino effect.
However, the fact remains that the 19 water reservoirs covering 2000 hectares
of land in 1980 has now reduced to 645 hectares only. Thus, the water bearing capacity in 645 hectares have reduced to a large extent. In such a
devastating disaster, the communication is more important which should be mainly related to flood and relief work, information about relatives etc. The social media tools
Facebook, Twitter and Google are helping people at large in bridging the communication gap.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Social
networking giant Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature in Chennai. Facebook, which has its
second largest user base in India, activated the feature to allow people mark
themselves as "safe" from the floods. A click or tap on the “I’m
Safe” button lets friends and loved ones know straight away. Users can also
check to see whether their friends are safe too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">F</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">undraising
campaigns are also afoot on social networking websites to help the people in
need. “Help us get food and other essentials to those stranded in Chennai due
to floods,” reads a link shared by a Facebook user, Satish Sabapathi.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">#ChennaiFloods
remained as one of the top trend hashtags in India on Twitter through the week.
This handle was used for information sharing about relatives and their
locality, information about safe places, information of food and civil supplies
and other relief works. The other hashtags are #chennairains, #chennaivolunteer, #chennairescue and #chennairainshelp and many more created by local people. These handle is also a source of information for volunteer and Government.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">In an effort to provide all critical information related to floods in
the city at one place, Google has created the Crisis Response tool — “South
India Flooding” — which enables users access to emergency helpline numbers, flooded
streets, relief centers, crowdsourced list of places and people offering
shelter, map of crowdsourced flooded streets and other such important
information. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;">A crowdsourced Google <a href="http://chennairains.org/" target="_blank" title="spreadsheet"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">spreadsheet</span></a>
started by Chennai residents has become one of the most popular platforms for
relief efforts. It lists the shelters and aid being offered by volunteers,
requirements as well as rescue.</span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">
</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">A website, chennairains.org has put out a list of places that are
offering accommodation and food to people affected by rains. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Telecom operators
have also come forward to help people, offering free talk time and data usage to
help them stay connected. BSNL and SSTL are providing free data upload and talk time in the Tamil Nadu circle.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">During the disaster in Chennai, the Social Media Tools have demonstrated
their capacity to help people in disaster in spite of the fact that disaster monitoring
agencies are yet to be equipped with these tools for better disaster management.</span></div>
</span></div>
P K Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795955815028536622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-33580534128143831402015-12-05T09:33:00.000-08:002015-12-05T09:34:06.651-08:00Potential to use social media during disasters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA),
headed by the Prime Minister, is the nodal agency for Disaster management in
India. During the recent floods in Chennai (capital city of Tamil Nadu, one of
the Southern states of India), NDMA has been playing major role in rescue
operations and relief activities. While it is heartening to note how help was
pouring for Chennai floods through the use of social media by the citizens, it
is equally disappointing to find that NDMA has not utilized the potential of
social media to strengthen their rescue and relief strategy. NDMA is presently using
three social media platforms namely Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. There is no
single post on Facebook and no single video on YouTube about the Chennai
floods. The latest video on YouTube is 6 months old. There were just four tweets
on Twitter @ndmaindia as mentioned below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">NDMA helpline 24*7 is 1078 #ChennaiRainsHelp
#ChennaiFloods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All rescue requests to be mailed to tn04-ndrf@nic.in.
copy to ndmacontrlroom@gmail.com. #ChennaiFloods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All requests received for help/rescue being
transferred to NDMA and NDRF control room #ChennaiFloods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Please confirm at ndmacontrlroom@gmail.com if
stranded persons for whom rescue request tweeted, have reached safely, to avoid
duplication # ChennaiFloods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The above shows that there is no serious
attempt to use the potential of social media by the Government agency. There is
still greater emphasis on use of conventional mediums of communication such as
helpline and e-mails. While these are important and useful mediums, social
media is also an equally important tool during crisis and disaster management,
as we have seen in recent incidents in USA and France. There is a need to have institutions
such as Virtual Operation Support Teams (VOST) in India also, to harness the
social media during such disasters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The use of social media by the Government in
India is still novice. However, given the inclination of the present Government
towards social media use, it is hoped that in near future, the Government
agencies will equip themselves to tap the potential of social media during
crisis/disasters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581238229687517328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-77121501716698445792015-12-05T09:10:00.000-08:002015-12-05T09:13:56.822-08:00Digital Diplomacy<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to <a href="https://americansecurityproject.org/ASP%20Reports/Ref%200112%20-%20Challenges%20of%20the%20Internet%20and%20Social%20Media%20in%20PD.pdf" target="_blank">Mathew Wallin</a><span style="font-size: small;">—renowned public diplomacy scholar— </span><span style="color: #211c1e;">public
diplomacy is defined as <i>communication with foreign publics for the purpose
of achieving a foreign policy objective. </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Even though public diplomacy might sound as a new term for many people </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="color: #211c1e; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">including me before I started
graduate school</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="color: #211c1e; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">
is actually a very common foreign policy tool. Historically public diplomacy
has developed a bad reputation because of its continuous use of propaganda.
However, during the last decade many scholars in the field emerged and started
looking at it differently. The main idea now is to create connections with
foreign public and start a dialogue with them. Even more recently the term
digital diplomacy arose, and it refers to the use social media tools in public
diplomacy efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">More than 75% of the world leaders have twitter
accounts and some of personally use it to communicate with each other and with
local and foreign public. The phenomenon now even has term, <a href="http://twiplomacy.com/" target="_blank">“Twiplomacy”</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: text1;">For example, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in 2011 the <span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43185212/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/twitter-diplomacy-new-face-foreign-relations/#.VmMZrek5vww" target="_blank">Swedish ForeignMinister</a></span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> reached out</span> to his Bahraini counterpart
via Twitter, moving a traditionally communications that are usually private to
tools in Web 2.0.</span><span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">Managing social media for head of states sounds
taunting, but believe it or not is easier than actually connecting with foreign
target audiences through social media. Usually the main goal of public diplomacy is to positively
enhance the views or approval of the country that is carrying out the efforts.
This requires more than communicating directly with the decision makers. The
purpose and the greatest challenge rest in connecting with the youth, and
thought leaders of the country. Achieving this demands continuous two-way
communication, which again is not simple, especially when its in a </span><span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman";">different</span><span style="color: #211c1e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> language and culture. Right now the U.S. government main
goal now is to counterattack the cyber efforts that ISIS has been doing, they
have team exclusively dedicated to this. There are many opinions in the matter,
but what do you think would be the move for the U.S. in this controversial issue?<o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09660141814299443619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814421163036727864.post-74256531550877238742015-12-03T15:07:00.000-08:002015-12-03T15:07:49.332-08:00BBC article:- How Chennai residents are helping flood affected via social media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In continuation of previous post, please also go through BBC coverage <br />
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34981360</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981097171692729647noreply@blogger.com0