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Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation? This dialogue is a space to share and discuss many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action."
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Using Mobiles | SMS (Short Message Service)
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Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation?
Our outstanding resource practitioners for the November-December tactical discussion shared and discussed many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action". You can still contribute your ideas, questions and experiences!
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Philippe Duhamel - in his interTactica blog - Harnessing new technology for new tactics provides some great examples to get our creative ideas flowing.
- Sending out an SMS -- Supporting human rights work and activism with text messaging, or SMS - Short Messaging Service - functionality
- Organizing demonstrations -- Such as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine
- Coup de text -- Like ousting a president, it happened in the Philippines
- Protest Ringtones -- Highlighting corruption, it's being used in the Philippines
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Careless response
Dear Friends,
Many of you may hear about recent tragedy in Bangladesh that some of the members of Bangladesh Boarder Force killed more than hundred of senior army officers. The rivals also captured the boarder force headquarter for 36 hours. They snatched away most of the hostages mobile phones. Some of the officers who was badly wounded or hide from the rivals somehow managed to call and send text message to their colleagues and relatives. But we didn’t realize their appeal and take necessary measures timely. Now talk of the town is why government takes so much time to address the issues. So my comment is uses of mobile can be effective tool to prevent any crime but it depends on how we interpret the message and take action accordingly.
Nation deeply condoles to those valued officers who had been killed in that tragic incidence. But at the end it is true that we didn’t perform our responsibility to save or rescue them.
Rakib, Bangladesh
Mir Rakib Ahsan
Senior Program Officer; Rights and Criminal Justice
The Asia Foundation
Bangladesh