When talking about advocacy and its best practices (whether offline or online), several great and useful resources come to mind. Some of these resources have a direct focus on advocacy, and many other tackle a lot of modules that are used in any advocacy campaign. Here are some of the resources we love.
On Advocacy and Strategies:
- APC's Advocacy Strategies and approaches
- SMEX's Tasharuk (resource in Arabic)
- Engine Rooms’ Complier
- APC's Advocacy for Change Through Technology
- Web We Want Cookbook Recipes for a Digital Revolution
- IFEX Campaign Toolkit
On Data and Information Visualization:
- GlobalVoices Advox’ Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Tools for Digital Advocacy
- Tactical Technology Collective's Visualizing Information for Advocacy
On Citizen Media:
- The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
- APC's Human rights and the internet’ multimedia training
On Data Visualization:
- Net Stories, a resource website that aims to empower communities to create digital stories
On Privacy, Security and Digital Security:
- EFF's Surveillance self-defense
- Safe Hub Collective's A guide to Feminist Cybersecurity
- Tactical Technology Collective's Zen and the art of making tech work for you
- Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ 10 Simple Security Tips for HRD
