Feature Online Dialogue: Using Mobile Phones for Action
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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:
sms to move people to action
i just would like to share briefly that in the philippines, a big factor for the success of people power 2 in 2001 was the sms techonology when people simply passed on sms to go to edsa (this is a national road, epifanio de los santos avenu) and join the call for president estrada to step down on charges of corruption and plunder [of course post edsa development is something else...] ..i think more than in any country, it is in the philippines that we have (also) used the sms tecnology to advance our causes, advocacies and in mobilising the population for a common good.
ellene