mPreventViolence: Communications and Technology for Violence
Prevention
A Workshop
December 8–9, 2011
AGENDA
Workshop Objectives:
• To transform the field of violence prevention by accelerating the integration of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into research and prevention activities;
• To explore and anticipate the application of innovative ICTs to violence prevention;
• To highlight:
the use of traditional and new media to communicate evidence-based information for violence prevention;
new applications of social media and new communications technologies to prevent violence; and
the negative impact and unintended consequences of traditional and new media along with ways to mitigate these impacts.
DAY 1: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8
SESSION I. Setting the Stage
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
8:30 AM – Kickoff
DEEPALI PATEL, Institute of Medicine
JIM MERCY, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
LISA WITTER, Fenton
9:00 AM – Keynote
ERIK HERSMAN, Ushahidi and iHub
9:30 AM – The State of Violence Prevention: Progress and Challenges
MARK ROSENBERG, The Task Force on Global Health
10:00 AM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
10:30 AM – BREAK
10:50 AM – The Field of Information and Communications Technologies and What It Promises for the Future
JODY RANCK, Public Health Institute
11:10 AM – Response Panel
KATHLEEN MCGOWAN, U.S. Agency for International Development
MICHELE MOLONEY-KITTS, Together for Girls
11:40 AM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
LUNCH IN THE CANADA ROOM
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SESSION II. Preventing Violence Using Information
and Communications Technologies
The purpose of this session is to illustrate the myriad ways that ICTs can be used to prevent violence. A series of short, animated presentations will illuminate some of the most interesting current approaches.
1:00 PM – Session Overview
KRISTIN SCHUBERT, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
1:10 PM – Promising ICT Approaches
CHARLOTTE COLE, Sesame Workshop
BEN SAWYER, Games for Health
EESHA PANDIT, Breakthrough
JUDITH CARTA, University of Kansas
ASHLEY WOMBLE, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
2:00 PM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
SESSION III. The Problem of Violence in the
Media and Potential Remedies
The purpose of this session is to acknowledge and discuss the role of traditional and new media in causing violence as well as potential avenues for preventing these unintended consequences. The session will outline the evidence base supporting such effects for both traditional and new media, review current approaches to mitigating the impact of such mediated violence on children and adolescents, and address the role of public policies governing media content and how it is shared.
2:30 PM – The Contribution of Traditional and New Media to Violence and Potential Remedies
VISH VISWANATH, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
2:50 PM – The Use of Public Policy in Addressing Media Violence
DALE KUNKEL, University of Arizona
3:10 PM – Audience Discussion and Interactive Dialogue
3:40 PM – BREAK
SESSION IV. Social Technology and Large-Scale Change
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
The use of social media and ICTs to effect macro-level change has gained significant attention in the past year, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. How have these tools changed the ways people mobilize? How can they be leveraged for positive and sustainable change?
4:00 PM – Revolutions Gone Viral: How Social Media Transform Small Events into Large Change
JOHN POLLOCK, Technology Review
4:20 PM – Sustaining Peace Post-Conflict
MICK FEALTY, Slugger Consults
4:35 PM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
5:15 PM – End of Day 1
DAY 2: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9
8:30 AM – Opening Remarks and Summary of Day 1
JIM MERCY, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9:00 AM – Evaluations of mHealth
WILLIAM RILEY, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
9:25 AM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
SESSION V. Information and Communications
Technology for Violence Prevention
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM
The goal of this session is to connect ICT and violence prevention experts to brainstorm, innovate, and scale new or existing ideas, tools, and tactics to prevent violence.
9:45 AM - Introduction
FRAN HENRY, F. Felix Foundation
10:00 AM - Breakouts: ICT Views of Violence Prevention
• Child maltreatment prevention
HARRIET MACMILLAN, McMaster University
DAHNA GOLDSTEIN, Philantech, LLC
• Suicide prevention
DAN REIDENBERG, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
JOHN GORDON, Fenton
• Youth violence prevention
KIM SCOTT, Child Resiliency Programme, Hope Counseling and Wellness Center
SCOTT GOODSTEIN, Revolution Messaging
• Dating violence prevention
ANDRA THARP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CONSTANCE DECHERNEY, iCrossing
JASON RZEPKA, MTV
• Elder abuse prevention
11:00 AM - Presentations on Pre-Workshop Ideas and Breakout Sessions
11:45 AM - Full Audience Interaction
BREAK FOR LUNCH
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SESSION VI. Use of Information and Communications Technologies in Dissemination and Implementation of Violence Prevention Concepts and Knowledge
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The purpose of this session is to describe the challenges inherent in dissemination and implementation, to illustrate how ICTs can be used to address these challenges, and to discuss the implications for the field of violence prevention.
1:00 PM – Creating Public Value Through Cross-Boundary Collaboration: The Utility of ICT
DEVON HALLEY, Deloitte Research GovLab (XBC)
1:20 PM – Scaling Up: Lessons Learned from Public Health and Applications to Violence Prevention
JOE MCCANNON, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
1:40 PM – Facilitated Audience Discussion
2:00 PM – Closing Observations and Insights
MIKE FEIGELSON, Bernard Van Leer Foundation
JOHN GORDON, Fenton
BRIGID MCCAW, Kaiser Permanente
JIM MERCY, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3:00 PM – Workshop Adjourns