Activists have found creative ways to use maps, but also development organizations have to deal with a lot of spatial information. Using geo-referenced through maps can improve transparency, and yet not so many organizations use it

New technologies are changing the way we engage communities, run companies, deliver public services, participate in government and campaign for change.

As new media technologies proliferate, cultural production is becoming increasingly participatory – spawned by the prominence of what Foucault (1988) called “technologies of the self.”