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Using Mobiles | SMS (Short Message Service)
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Intro
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:
mobiles in mass organizing white paper
It might be of interest to some to read this white paper that my colleague Corinne Ramey has written for MobileActive. It focuses on a history and overview of using mobiles in mass organizing, both from a strategic and tactical prespective. It references a lot of the cases that Philippe mentions in this blogost in greater details. Here is the information:
Remember the 'coup de text' in the Phillipines in 2001? How about
the text message joke circulating right before Poland's elections last
month that read "Steal your grandmother's ID"?
Anyone following protest movements in the last few years has
witnessed how mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass
organizing of protests and demonstration. In the Philippines, South
Korea, Nepal, Bolivia, China, the Ukraine, the United States, and most
recently Burma and Pakistan, cell phone have connected activists and
ordinary people, giving civic voice to individuals and creating
communication channels for organizing, mobilizing, and reporting.
In this MobileActive.org White Paper on Mobile Phones in Mass Organizing,
we describe the tactical uses of mobiles in organizing, security for
activists and NGOs, and address some of the realities and myths that
have surrounded the rise of the mobile phone as a tool in mass
organizing.
Continue to the White Paper.
Katrin, http://MobileActive.org