Use of Mobiles for Civil Society Campaigns and Advocacy

Use of Mobiles for Civil Society Campaigns and Advocacy, a workshop on mobile activism at the 2008 CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland.

Resource Persons include Katri Verclas (Mobileactive.org, Christiana Charles-Iyoha, Grace Avuaira(Centre for Policy and Development)

Highlights include:

• Over view of mobiles in development
• Use of Mobiles for Advocacy Campaigns
• Why Mobile Based Campaigns
• How Mobiles Facilitate Advocacy Campaigns
• Successful Global Case Studies
• Tools, Services and Resources
• Some Dos and Don'ts of a Mobile Campaign
• Challenges
• Organizations using mobiles for Advocacy campaigns

Please, find detailed powerpoint presentations on www.mobileactive.org

a development communications practitioner involved in policy and development analysis with a bias to gender influence, coherence and integration in development. Christiana has a keen interest in and a burning passion for gendered development policy and development programming.

An active participant in the Nigerian and global social development discourse, Christiana has extensive experience in germane social development issues from the National Foundation on Vesico Vagina Fistulae, Post Abortion Care Network, (Nigeria), and Development Information Network. The author of The Family Unit as Designed by God, Christiana’s experience and expertise is an asset to the programming and management base of the Center. She is Protem Coordinator of the African Women ICT4D Network.

Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Objective
To be a leading policy analyst and reference as well as an active participant in the social development sector providing the initiative, innovative and intellectual capital; and mobilizing resources nationally and internationally for the sustainable development of Nigeria.

I am a policy and development analyst with a bias to gender influence, coherence and integration in development. Christiana has a keen interest in and a burning passion for gendered development policy and development programming.

An active participant in the Nigerian and global social development discourse, I have extensive experience in germane social development issues from the National Foundation on Vesico Vagina Fistulae, Post Abortion Care Network, (Nigeria), and Development Information Network.



Publications
The Family Unit as Designed by God (Author)


Mobile Telephony: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities for Socio-Economic Transformation in Nigeria (Editor)

President
African Women Development Cooperative (AWDC) that is empowering African Women Financially


Protem Coordinator
African Women ICT4D Network.

Skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications; Media Strategy and Image Projection; Organizational and Resource Development; Resource Mobilization and Management.

Hobbies

Reading, Writing, Scrabble and Stamp Collecting

Paper Presentations
Use of Mobiles for Civil Society Campaigns and Advocacy (Glasgow, June 2008)
v Global Environmental Challenges (Lagos, Nigeria, 2002)
v Good Governance and Sustainable Development (Lagos, Nigeria, 2003)
v Funding Agencies and Funding Interests (Lagos, Nigeria, 2003)
v Grammatical Aspects of Report Writing (Lagos, Nigeria, 2003)
v Information Resources on Globalisation (Lagos, Nigeria, April, 2004)
v Challenges and Prospects in Enforcing and Globalising Women’s Economic and Social Rights in Africa (Bonn, Germany, 2004)
v Gender Concerns in the Trade Discourse (Calabar, Nigeria, June 2004)
v The Role of Youths in Nation building (Lagos, Nigeria, July, 2004)
v Teachers as Partners in Development (Lagos, Nigeria, July, 2004)
v Resource Mobilization and NGO Management (Lagos, Nigeria, August, 2004)
v Cassava, the Economic Resource of the 21st Century (Ogbere, Ogun State, September 2004)