Publication: Why Use Chat for Impact (Pippa Yeats & Lieze Langford)
The opportunity for accessible, secure, chat-for-impact services is enormous. Mobile chat via a medium like WhatsApp is transforming the way people connect. It’s also changing the way people engage with organizations and is increasing access to essential services. Never before have social impact teams been able to communicate with millions of people in such an engaging, personal, and secure manner.
This article provides a justification for the use of chat for more personalised engagement by social impact organisations. It also offers insights of how chat can be better utilised for the desired social impact.
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Publication: Disability Inclusive Theatre Could Bring Change In Serbia’s Media and Society (Snežana Miletić)
The media has the ability and power to change society for the better. If there is enough pressure from the media, it could result in schools introducing a class on understanding people with developmental disabilities, and vulnerable minority groups in general. Art and theatre classes could act as the means for change in educational systems around the world. They could make learning approachable and fun and heinous crimes and abuse towards those with disabilities, would stop.
The way that people with disabilities are treated needs to change so that acts of injustice against people with disabilities can change. The role of the media in all this is crucial. The media carries a lot of responsibility in the way the society’s views change, but it seems that in most cases they are unaware of it and often waste opportunities to educate. However, good practices and examples can be taken from the arts, and more specifically the theatre.
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Publication: What Has The Pandemic Taught Us About Science Communication? (Junaid Nabi-Aspen Institute)
Too often during the COVID-19 pandemic, poor communication by scientists and experts has led to the low take-up of measures that could have saved lives.
This is having a significant impact on progress in tackling the pandemic, in the US and elsewhere.
Scientists and healthcare leaders need to focus on developing clarity and empathy, as these are the key qualities for effective communication in a crisis.
Good communication skills deter conflict, create a sense of collective endeavor, and ultimately save lives.
This article highlights some of the lessons from COVID-19 regarding science communication.
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New Publication: How to Use Behaviour Change Communications for COVID-19 Digital Response
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, the world is faced with travel bans, project funding restrictions, and the increasing need to operate remotely. A multi-faceted COVID-19 Digital Response, including behaviour change communication on personal and respiratory hygiene, proper handwashing, social distancing, and so is therefore essential.
Trying to get these vital messages out to the remotest and most marginalised communities is a significant challenge from a human-centered design, implementation, and impact monitoring perspective: how can we know what technology people are using and who they trust? How can we work with local groups remotely in an effective way? How can we be assured that behaviour change is in action?
This publication highlights way in which SBCC can be utilised in COVID-19 Digital response.
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