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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:
help is just a text away for overseas filipinos in distress
hi all.
i am happy to be part of this online discussion on
the use of mobile phones. we are a migrants rights ngo in manila that
focuses on policy advocacy to promote the rights and well being of
overseas filipino workers (OFWs) and their families. to complement our
policy advocacy program is our program to assist OFWs and other
overseas filipinos in distress. last year, we activated an sms based
system to enable the OFWs in distress to promptly report their
distressed cases and facilitate assistanc by concerned government
agencies and partner migrant rights groups in the philippines and
abroad. the sms projest was initiated in 2005 by a team of
IT-expert-OFws in saudi arabia. later, they were joined in IT-expert
colleagues in Manila and Australia until its online launch last
february 14, 2006. since then, our case load has increased by more than
500% with most of the texters originating from west asia.
cma facilitates the prompt response of government and partner-groups alike for the resolution of the cases.
as
you may have heard, there are some 8.2 million filipinos overseas in
more than 192 countries and destinations. more than 3 million of them
are OFWs mostly in asia --in west asia, south east and east asia.
all for now. i'll be happy to share more.
thank you.