ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), specifically the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) utilized information technologies to help achieve the treaty. It provides a background to the landmine issue and recounts a brief history of NGOs' role in promoting the issue and the various attempts to get the international community to address problems caused by landmines. The chapter addresses the ICBL and the role of information technologies in banning landmines. It then examines how the LSN made use of information technologies to achieve their goals of increasing resources for victim assistance. The chapter concludes that the ICBL and LSN use of informational technologies opens up new avenues by which these technologies can be used to influence the making of foreign policy. It shows how information technologies facilitated ICBL and LSN communications and reduced networking costs.
