The armchair activist - Using the internet for biodiversity
Biography
Juliet Summers' Armchair Activist talk
Juliet Summers, Online researcher
My early working life was spent using traditional audio visual mediums for community education. By the early 1990's the internet became accessible to the home user and I was an early convert to that virtual world which was to become my new home. It was at this time I lost all interest in traditional forms of audio visual media and became hard core digital.
I have always had a passion for social justice, in particular environmental issues so along the way I gained a degree in Social work. In the late 90's I co-founded software company Young Earth IT which specialises in utilising the internet for social justice. Our client base are all organisations dedicated to bringing an end to family violence and sexual abuse. I am also employed part time by Southern Health as an online project worker running an online cyber outreach service for sexually abused youth. I also lecture in computers at several neighbourhood houses specialising in teaching computer literacy to mature aged and special needs learners.
Favourite websites
Participants in the workshop
- Urban Dictionary is the dictionary you wrote. Define your world.
- www.wired.com
- The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
- www.avaaz.org - A community of global citizens who take action on major issues
Favourite books
Google books is a great place to look for books - many books have excerpts or full text from the book.
Armchair activist pages
The following pages contain MP3 audio and a PDF from the lecture as well as the links from each topic.
Read the introduction