 For me, this activism is using the new information technology to defend the cause like freedom of expression or human rights or the environment. We are aggregating information, we're aggregating ideas, we're putting things together, mashing them up with images, maybe building alliances with other groups and so forth, and then making an argument that we hope will change public debate in some way, move it in the direction of our interest. We organized for donations and we got donations from as far as Trinidad. The difference in digital campaigns is that much of this work takes place in some online medium typically. I think that digital activism is empowering individuals to make some changes. I don't claim that digital activism will change the world but it is changing some aspect in our lives. I mean the internet always plays a critical, amplifying role in any intellectual production, any idea, any report that has to get to a lot of people. It's also played a role in helping coordinate the different efforts that have been going on within the country and with Kenyans outside the country. Social networking for activism does have its plus points, it has a massive base. People are already members of Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, whichever network it is, and they're already tapped in. You can make some changes if you use efficiently the tools that are freely available on the internet like video sharing sites, YouTube daily motion or photo sharing sites like Flickr or blogging platform like wordpress.com or blogspot.com or using social networking websites like Facebook and other MySpace or using what else, Twitter for sending very short messages through the internet and SMS. The technology used was wide range from computers to SMS and to the traditional media as well. With many NGOs desperate to communicate with the outside world, desperate to communicate with stakeholders and donors and members of the public and all sorts of constituents, the mobile phone has become a pretty important tool for them. So SMS is probably the default application on the mobile phone. My advice to young activists or young people who are thinking about getting into activism or even old people who are thinking about getting into activism is to just go out there and do it. If you have a passion for something, if you have a story to tell, just go out and do it. You don't need the most expensive camera, you don't need the most expensive laptop. You don't even need your own laptop, just a notepad, pen, write what you see, go to a cyber cafe and upload it. Just don't wait for everything to be perfect or that never will. Use whatever tool you have around you. Some of the challenges that media have because of the clamp down, there isn't that clamp down on the internet and that's a very powerful thing. So I would say to blog and if they have a digital camera to take pictures and upload it, share, share, share. For new activists, I think one of the important things to understand is that especially young activists, you're already playing with the tools of the trade. You're already on Facebook or MySpace, you already know what a blog is. You probably have an iPod or some kind of MP3 there, you listen to podcasts. These are all the tools that you'll use in activism. So continue to use those tools and train yourself on them so when the time comes that you need to use it for a specific reason, then you'll be ready. Get a blog, it's free, register, it doesn't require a lot of technical expertise and another thing I found useful is become part of a community, an online community, it can be a blogging community based on geographic location, based on a cause or an issue you're involved in because social networking, digital activism, it's all about building connection, building links. Knowing how to act is important, knowing when to act is important. You can't act unless you know and you have a network of people that will support you and believe in you and have some credibility within that organization. You don't need NGOs or advocates or government to do that, you can do that by yourself.