It was the result of decades of sustained activism, shareholder advocacy and consumer advocacy.

Is it shareholder value, shareholder value, shareholder value ?

I'm the sole shareholder.

lack of political activism.

Do you know who the biggest shareholder is?

It's just going to another shareholder who bought it before you.

This incident got me into human rights activism.

This allowed us to assign a degree of influence to each shareholder.

But it is an important tactic in Info activism.

It was a time of unprecedented social and political activism.

Ai Wei Wei is also famous for human rights activism.

What got him into activism was the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

You needed local, on the ground activism to go with that.

Info activism involves harnessing information and communication tools for positive social change.

Online activism is about bringing solutions to problems that used to be considered hopeless.

So anything that this guy gets by being a shareholder of this stock, I have to provide for him.

And the links represent the shareholding relations, so shareholder A has x percent of the shares in company B.

And ideas achieving critical mass is what political activism in popular government is all about.

So as long as activism is that simple, it's pretty easy to get away with.

I think blogs are good tools for info activism because they lend themselves to storytelling.

The way most blogs work for info activism and for advocacy is through blog communities.

We often hear about cyber activism, how people are getting more active because of the Internet.

But under repressive regimes successful online info activism does not always easily translate into offline impacts.

Info activism is what happens when rights advocates use information as their primary asset for driving change.

Sometimes an overlooked part of info activism work is the value of maintaining and sustaining healthy networks.

In Burma, many bloggers are now paying a high price for their online activism during the Saffron Revolution.

The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former. How deep did you bury that shareholder, Paul?

So if you want to look for effective organizations to reduce that suffering, you can go to Effective Animal Activism.

We asked 50 rights advocates how they turn information into action and we asked what info activism means to them

These examples highlight the need to be alert to both the opportunities and risks involved in using online platforms for activism.

How do you hold the sovereigns of cyberspace accountable to the public interest when most CEO's argue that their main obligation is to maximize shareholder profit?

Activism is not looked upon favorably by the Japanese society, so a protest of even a 1,000 people is a major event.

Bringing people's personal stories to the front of your info activism is one way to make sure people's experiences are not ignored.

It's the result of very sustained and prolonged political activism that you get the right regulations, and that you get the right corporate behavior.

Demand Progress is an online activism organization, we've got around a million and a half members now, but started in the fall of 2010.

Perhaps more importantly, tens of thousands of people joined the advocacy programs and the activism programs that we created to go around the movies.

In the peak of our activism, the minister of Gender Liberia called me and said, Leymah, I have a nine year old for you.

It's a project that now reaches across three continents, and its roots go into the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft and environmental activism.

Info activism means having access to technology and being able to use technology to create and disseminate information in a very democratic and participatory way

And what I believe is missing is genuine grassroots activism on the ground, in addition to international aid, in addition to education, in addition to health.

As we started working and publishing the stuff we had we discovered different uses for it in activism, in organising relief work and in facilitating reconstruction later on.

Then, think about how you can document your own info activism stories and when you have done this, tell us so that we can share these stories with others.

There were various problems with the online activism which made it difficult to translate into an offline mode and one of them was the fact that it was on Facebook.

If you want to manage your contact information in your info activism work you need to be systematic you need to try to integrate information collection on almost all the levels

And the first lesson, which I think is a worthwhile one, is that you cannot go wrong asking people to be active online, so long as activism just means retweeting a phrase.