Feature Online Dialogue: 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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Hi again, Noel here picking up on Katrin's blog earlier, it's a small world! I am just back from Indonesia where I spent two weeks working in three seperate three day workshops on "peace and transformation" . This programme was supported by N.D.I. and although it was hard and intensive work it was very rewarding to know we were making a positive contribution to their peace process.
Now back to our subject. I was just thinking about mobile phones and the impact they have had since their introduction. The Prison Service in Northern Ireland had to eventually introduce a pay phone, complete with kiosk, for every wing of the H blocks. There were 8 H blocks in all, 4 wings per block, after they discovered there were dozens of prisoners in each wing who had smuggled in a mobile phone. So they get about don't they?