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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
Links from the dicussion:
Using Mobile Phones for Action
HI TO EVERYBODY,
IT'S NATASHA HERE. I WANT TO SAY THAT THIS WILL BE VERY INTERSTING AND USEFUL DISCUSION FOR ALL OF US.
If we understand the mobile phone as a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication, than we
have a right when we talk for the mobile phone as tools in
our communication. In Macedonia the mobile phone is very
wildy used. I can say that we have at least two mobile
phone per citizens. In this way it is easy to send the message to
biggest number of poeple. For this reason we use SMS
message in the frame of our campaign. Than we use the SMS message
as tools in our communication, but we are not always very succesful.
Occasianaly we havant a good message, sometimes we
dont find a good time for sending, sometimes tha citizens react
of recieving this kind of message from somebody who is not
in their contact list...
Than we should learn from the others.
I will stop now here, and I'm waiting for your comment.
Regards, Natasa
Natasha Dokovska
executive director
Journalists for children and women rights and protection of environemnt in Macedonia
Venijamin Macukovski, 2A-3/16
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
+38970277619
skype:natasa.dokov