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Released Online 8 November 1999 CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE Technology, Internet Activism and the Crisis in Burma Technological Revolution and Internet Activism The Standoff in Burma A Short History of how the Internet Came to Play a Role in the Burma Crisis PART TWO Case Studies The Massachusetts Selective Purchasing Legislation The Free Burma Coalition and the Pepsi Boycott Campaign The Pepsi Campaign at Harvard University The Network Assessing the Results PART THREE The Internet's Impact on Activism Advantages of Using the Internet Disadvantages of Using the Internet Conclusion APPENDICES Appendix A: The Internet Activist Survey Results Appendix B: Sample Survey Appendix C: Selected Internet Resources on Burma Appendix D: Selected Electronic Mail Messages Footnotes

 

Networking Dissent
Cyber-Activists Use the Internet to Promote Democracy in Burma

Tiffany Danitz and Warren P. Strobel

Appendix B

Sample Survey

Internet-Burma Activist Survey

Note: The following survey is being conducted as part of a grant from the United States Institute of Peace to study how the Internet is playing a role in bringing nonviolent change to Burma.

Your response is greatly appreciated, and will help advance this significant work, which has important implications for the future of nonviolent activism around the world. No names are asked for, and all information will be held in strictest confidentiality by the project directors. Please take the survey only once! Reply to:

wstrobel@annap.infi.net

Warren P. Strobel
Tiffany Danitz
PROJECT DIRECTORS

AGE GROUP:

• Under 18
• 18-21
• 22-26
• 26-35
• 36-50
• 51 and older

SEX:

• Male
• Female

EDUCATION LEVEL:

• High school
  • Current
  • Graduate
• College
  • Current
  • Graduate
• Graduate school
  • Current
  • Graduate
• Postgraduate
  • Current
  • Graduate

OCCUPATION:

• Number of months/years in this field?

Country of Origin:

Country of Residence:

• If USA, what State?

Language:

• What is your first language? Second language?
• In what language do you communicate on the Internet?
• Have language requirements ever posed a problem for you in using the Internet? If so, how?

Activist Activity:

• What campaigns are you involved in?
• What was the first campaign you ever worked on?
• Other comments on your personal activist history?

Burma:

• How long have you worked on Burma?
• How did you first get involved?
• When did you begin using the Internet for your activism?
• How has the Internet affected your activist work (please be as specific as possible)?
• Do you see it affecting your future work as well? How?

Source of your e-mail/Internet access:

• College account
• Work account
• Personal account
• Other

Internet Usage:

• How much total time a day/week do you spend on the Internet?
• How much time a day/week do you spend on the Internet regarding Burma?
• Are you concerned about SLORC monitoring of the Internet? Have you ever experienced any attempt by SLORC or anyone else to sabotage an action planned on the Net or information transmitted on the Net?
• Have you personally been able to use the Net to communicate with people inside of Burma?

Have you ever used the Net to:

• Lobby local/state or federal legislators? If so, how?
• Set up meetings re: Burma?
• Organize actions re: Burma?

Is the Net indispensable to your work/your network?

Thank you for taking the time to complete and return this survey.

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