Ken Banks facilitates Amnesty arms workshop in India
Ken Banks has just returned from a three-day Amnesty International workshop held in New Delhi, India. The short workshop was designed to train and educate a number of young Control Arms campaigners from the region. Thousands of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result of the unregulated global arms trade. The Control Arms campaign is calling for an international, legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty to ease the suffering caused by irresponsible weapons transfers.
Ken discussed the uses of mobile technology in campaigning, advocacy and voting, gave examples of its use throughout the developed and developing worlds, discussed options and answered questions from the delegates. A training session on FrontlineSMS was also provided - the software was previously identified by Amnesty as a key tool in their continuing work in South-East Asia.
Details of Ken’s Workshop program can be found in the Workshops section of his site.