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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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Building relationships with mobile phones
Hi Noel, this great emphasis on relationships is so key to our human rights work and to who we are as advocates. Our abillity to make change is rooted in our ability to reach people in new and different ways.
The New Tactics project has a great resource that was developed by Callie Persic about Interaction Belfast's work on our website that I'd like to let people know about. Callie presented your mobile phone network at our New Tactics International Symposium in Ankara, Turkey in 2004. The link to the workshop materials where her PowerPoint presentation with pictures of the "peacewall", the community divistions and so many other photos that provide the context you have and continue to work in. In addition, two other examples of how mobile phones have been used in the Netherlands and in Palestine can be found at the WK 214: Mobile Phones: Communicating for Action.
Nancy Pearson, New Tactics Program Manager
Nancy Pearson, New Tactics in Human Rights Program Manager